Strong's Greek · G48
G48 hagnízō
ἁγνίζω
hag-nid'-zo
to purify
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hagnízō appears 7 times in Scripture, in John, Acts, James, 1 Peter and 1 John. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to make clean, i.e. (figuratively) sanctify (ceremonially or morally)
In the King James Version
purify (self)
Derivation
from G53 (ἁγνός);
Appears 7 times in Scripture
“And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.”
“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
“Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.”
“Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.”
“Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.”
“So the next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he entered the temple to give notice of the date when their purification would be complete and the offering would be made for each of them.”
“At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
