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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PURE; PURELY; PURITY

pur, pur'-li, pu'-ri-ti: This group of words has in the Old Testament and the New Testament an almost exclusively ethical significance, though the word "pure" is of course used also in its literal sense of freedom from alloy or other alien matter (Exodus 25:11, etc.). "Pure" in the Old Testament represents many Hebrew words, most frequently Tahor; "purely," occurs once only in the King James Version, as the translation of bor, properly "that which cleanses" (compare Job 9:30, the Revised Version margin "Hebrew `cleanse my hands with lye,' " i.e. alkali for soap) in Isaiah 1:25, the Revised Version (British and American) "thoroughly (margin "as with lye," the King James Version "purely") purge away thy dross"; "pureness" is the King James Version translation of the same word in Job 22:30, the Revised Version (British and American) "cleanness." In the New Testament "pure" is the translation chiefly of katharos (Matthew 5:8, Blessed are the pure in heart," etc.), but also of hagnos (Philippians 4:8 1 Timothy 5:22 James 3:17 1 John 3:3 -always in an ethical sense). A different word (eilikrines) is used in 2 Peter 3:1, the Revised Version (British and American) "sincere." "Purity" (hagneia) occurs only in the King James Version in 1 Timothy 4:12; 1 Timothy 5:2; in the Revised Version (British and American) in 2 Corinthians 11:3 (as the translation of tes hagnotelos).

See CLEAN; PURITY.

W. L. Walker

Greek

55. hagnos -- purely, with pure motives
... purely, with pure motives. Part of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: hagnos Phonetic
Spelling: (hag-noce') Short Definition: purely, sincerely Definition: purely ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1253. bor -- lye, potash
... never so, purely The same as bor; vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a
soap for washing, or a flux for metals -- X never so, purely. see HEBREW bor. ...
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Library

Whether it is Lawful, in Matters Purely Corporal, to Communicate ...
... OF COMMUNICATION WITH EXCOMMUNICATED PERSONS (THREE ARTICLES) Whether it is lawful,
in matters purely corporal, to communicate with an excommunicated person? ...
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Christ's Explanations of Demonism Purely Spiritual. --His ...
... AGENCY. Section 104. Christ's Explanations of Demonism purely Spiritual."
His Accommodation to the Conceptions of the Demoniacs. It ...
/.../section 104 christs explanations of.htm

How Man's Activity Should be Purely in the Intellect and not in ...
... Chapter 4 How man's activity should be purely in the intellect and not in
the senses. Happy therefore is the person who by continual ...
/.../albert/on cleaving to god/chapter 4 how mans activity.htm

The Fourteenth Proposition. Concerning the Power of the Civil ...
... THE FOURTEENTH PROPOSITION. Concerning the Power of the Civil Magistrate, in
matters purely Religious, and pertaining to the Conscience. ...
/.../the fourteenth proposition concerning the.htm

Concerning the Power of the Civil Magistrate in Matters Purely ...
... Concerning the Power of the Civil Magistrate in Matters purely Religious,
and pertaining to the Conscience. Concerning the Power ...
/.../proposition xiv concerning the power.htm

Now all this Evil and Misery are Purely the Natural and Necessary ...
... [Way-1-62] Now all this evil and misery are purely the natural and necessary
effect of his� Now all this evil and misery are purely ...
/.../law/the way to divine knowledge/way-1-62 now all this evil.htm

Definition of Actual Grace
... 2. NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL GRACE."Grace is not necessarily supernatural. Sacred
Scripture and the Fathers sometimes apply the word to purely natural gifts. ...
/.../pohle/grace actual and habitual/section 1 definition of actual.htm

I am Told that He Also Carps at Me for the Translation I have ...
... the Son; and then, when I translated the whole Psalter into the Latin language,
as if I had forgotten my previous explanation, I put "Worship purely." No one ...
/.../19 i am told that.htm

Prolegomena.
... They who regard Introduction as a purely historical study of Hebrew and Old Christian
literature, will hold with Raibiger and Reuss that the apocryphal books ...
/.../drummond/introduction to the new testament/prolegomena.htm

Letter v. --The Fear of Being Wanting in Submission.
... Even as God, for the conversion and sanctification of people in the world often
sends them purely temporal afflictions such as illness, loss of goods, reverses ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter v the fear of being.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (adv.) In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).

2. (adv.) Nicely; prettily.

Thesaurus

Purely (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (adv.) Nicely; prettily. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PURE; PURELY; PURITY. ...
See CLEAN; PURITY. WL Walker. Multi-Version Concordance Purely (4 Occurrences ...
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Trinity
... TRINITY. trin'-i-ti 1. The Term "Trinity" 2. Purely a Revealed Doctrine 3. No Rational
Proof of It 4. Finds Support in Reason 5. Not Clearly Revealed in the Old ...
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Purity (16 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases;
as, purity of style. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PURE; PURELY; PURITY ...
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Fasting (34 Occurrences)
... Many customs, purely secular in their origin, have gradually obtained a religious
significance, just as purely religious customs have been dissociated from ...
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Physician (6 Occurrences)
... which have been preserved, the largest of which is the Papyrus Ebers, we know that
the medical knowledge of these physicians was purely empirical, largely ...
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Soap (4 Occurrences)
... carbonates with oleaginous matter. The word "purely" in Isaiah 1:25 (RV,
"throughly;" marg., "as with lye") is lit. "as with bor ...
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Fast (157 Occurrences)
... Many customs, purely secular in their origin, have gradually obtained a religious
significance, just as purely religious customs have been dissociated from ...
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Biblical
... distinguished. The science of dogmatics is a historico-philosophical one;
that of Biblical theology is purely historic. Dogmatics ...
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Ananias (11 Occurrences)
... He was under no compulsion to give all, for the communism of the early church was
not absolute, but purely voluntary (see especially Acts 5:4) Falsehood and ...
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Pure (160 Occurrences)
... PURE; PURELY; PURITY. ... Philippians 1:17 but those out of contention, announce the
Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds. ...
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Bible Concordance

Purely (4 Occurrences)

Philippians 1:16 the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,
(YLT)

Philippians 1:17 but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.
(DBY)

Job 33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall utter knowledge purely.
(DBY)

Isaiah 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
(KJV)

Subtopics

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