Lexical Summary ekkathairō: to cleanse thoroughly Original Word: ἐκκαθαίρωTransliteration: ekkathairō Phonetic Spelling: (ek-kath-ah'-ee-ro) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cleanse thoroughly Meaning: to cleanse thoroughly Strong's Concordance purge out. From ek and kathairo; to cleanse thoroughly -- purge (out). see GREEK ek see GREEK kathairo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1571: ἐκκαθαίρωἐκκαθαίρω: 1 aorist ἐξεκάθαρα (on the ἆ cf. Buttmann, 41 (35)); (ἐκ either equivalent to utterly or for ἐκ τίνος); in Greek writings from Homer, Iliad 2, 153 down; to cleanse out, clean thoroughly: ἐμαυτόν ἀπό τίνος, to avoid defilement from one and so keep oneself pure, 2 Timothy 2:21; with the accusative of the thing by the removal of which something is made clean (A. V. purge out), 1 Corinthians 5:7. (For צָרַף equivalent to to cleanse, Judges 7:4 variant; for בִּעֵר equivalent to to take away, Deuteronomy 26:13.) |
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