Quick Definition
καθαρός, ά, όν Adj clean, pure, unstained
Strong's Definition
of uncertain affinity; clean (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: clean, clear, pure
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ά, -όν | καθαρίζω
79.48 · Features of Objects · Clean, Dirty
clean, clear pertaining to not being dirty
MAT 23:26 · MAT 27:59 · LUK 11:41 · JHN 13:10 · JHN 13:10 · JHN 13:11 · HEB 10:22 · REV 15:6 · REV 19:8 · REV 19:14 · REV 21:18 · REV 21:18 · REV 21:21
53.29 · Religious Activities · Purify, Cleanse
clean, pure pertaining to being ritually clean or pure In LUK 11:41 καθαρός may be rendered in some languages as ‘pure in the eyes of God’ or even ‘right in the eyes of God.’
In a number of languages there is simply no relationship between physical cleanness and ritual acceptability or purity. Accordingly, it may be necessary to render καθαρός in LUK 11:41 and similar contexts as ‘acceptable to God’ or ‘good in God’s eyes’ or ‘good as God thinks.’
MAT 5:8 · LUK 11:41 · JHN 15:3 · ACT 18:6 · ACT 20:26 · ROM 14:20 · 1TI 1:5 · 1TI 3:9 · 2TI 1:3 · 2TI 2:22 · TIT 1:15 · TIT 1:15 · TIT 1:15 · JAS 1:27
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καθαρός, -d, -dv; [akin to Lat. castus, in-cestus, Eng. chaste, chasten; Curtius § 26; Vanitek p. 177]; fr. Hom. down; Sept. mostly for WW ; clean, pure, (free from the admixture or adhesion of any thing that soils, adulterates, corrupts) ; a. physically : Mt. xxiii. 26; xxvii. 59; Heb. x. 22 (23); Rev. xv. 6; xix. 8, 14, and Ree. in xxii. 1; χρυσίον, purified by fire, Rev. xxi. 18, 21; ina similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit, Jn. xv.3; ὁ NeAoup.. . - καθαρὸς ὅλος (where the idea which Christ expresses figuratively is as follows: ‘he whose inmost nature has been renovated does not need radical renewal, but only to be cleansed from every several fault into which he may fall through intercourse with the unrenewed world’), Jn. xiii. 10. b. in a levitical sense ; clean, i. 6. the use of which is not forbidden, imparts no uncleanness: πάντα καθαρά, Ro. xiv. 207 10 1.10: ce. ethically; free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt: Tit.i.15; ὑμεῖς καθαροΐ, In. xiii. 10, [11]; οἱ x. τῇ καρδίᾳ (as respects heart [W. § 31, 6 a.]), Mt. v. 8 (καθαρὸς χεῖρας, Hat. 1, 35; κατὰ τὸ σῶμα κ. κατὰ τὴν ψυχήν, Plat. Crat. p.405 b.); free from every admixture of what is false, sincere, ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας, 1 Tim. i. 5; 2 Tim. ii. 22, and R Gin 1 Pet. i. 225 ἐν καθαρᾷ συνειδήσει, 1 Tim. iii. 9; 2 Tim. i. 3; genuine (joined with ἀμίavros) θρησκεία, Jas. i. 27; blameless, innocent, Acts xviii6. Hebraistically with the addition of ἀπό τινος, pure from, i.e. unstained with the guilt of, any thing [W. § 30, 6a.; B.157 (137) sq.]: ἀπὸ τ. αἵματος, Acts xx. 26; Sus. 46 Alex., cf. Gen. xxiv. 8; Tob. iii. 14; καθαρὰς ἔχειν ras χεῖρας ἀπὸ τοῦ φόνου, Joseph. antt. 4, 8,16; in class. Grk. with a simple gen., as φόνου, Plat. legg. 9 p. 864 e.; cf. Passow 8. v. p. 1528" ; [L.andS. 5. ν. 37; Kiihner § 421, 4 ii. p. 344. ἃ. in a levitical and ethical sense: πάντα καθαρὰ ὑμῖν, Lk. xi. 41, on which see éveyu. [SyYN. see εἴλικρινής ; οἵ. Westcott on 1 Jn. iii. 3.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καθαρός katharos 27x
clean, pure, unsoiled, Mt. 23:26; 27:59; met. clean from guilt, guiltless, innocent, Acts 18:6; 20:26; sincere, upright, virtuous, void of evil, Mt. 5:8; Jn. 15:3; clean ceremonially and morally, Lk. 11:41
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
καθαρός, -ά, -όν,
[in LXX chiefly for טָהוֹר;]
pure, clean. Physically: Mt 23:26 27:59, Jo 13:10, 11 (fig.), Jo 15:3 (fig., as of a vine cleansed by pruning), He 10:22, Re 15:6 19:8, 14 21:18, 21.
Ceremonially: Lk 11:41, Ro 14:20, Tit 1:15.
Ethically;
of persons: Jo 13:16, Ac 18:6, Tit 1:15; ὁ κ. τῇ καρδίᾳ (καθαρὸς χειρας, Hdt., i, 35), Mt 5:8; seq. ἀπό (cl. c. gen. simp.; Bl., § 36, 11; Deiss., BS, 196; MM, Exp., xv), Ac 20:26;
of things: καρδία, I Ti 1:5, II Ti 2:22; συνείδησις, I Ti 3:9, II Ti 1:3; θρησκεία, Ja 1:27.†
SYN.: v.s. ἁγνός.
Trench — Synonyms of the New Testament
THE difference between these words is hard to express, even while one may instinctively feel it. They are continually found in company with one another (Plato, Phileb. 52d; Eusebius, Prep. Evan. xv. 15. 4), and words associated with the one are in constant association with the other. EiAcxpevns occurs only twice in the N. T. (Phil. i. 10; 2 Pet. iii. 1); once also in the Apocrypha (Wisd. vii. 25) ; εἰλικρινεια three times (1 Cor. v. 8; 2 Cor. i. 12: ii. 17). Its etymology, like that of ‘sincere,’ which is its best English rendering, is doubtful, uncertainty in this matter causing also uncertainty in the breathing. Some, as Stallbaum (Plato, Phedo, 66 a, note), connect with ἔλος, ἴλη (εἴλειν, εἴλεῖν), that which is cleansed by much rolling and shaking to and fro in the sieve; ‘ volubili agitatione secretum atque adeocribro purgatum.’? Another more familiar and more beautiful etymology, if only one could feel sufficient confidence in it, Lésner indicates: ‘dicitur de iis rebus quarum puritas ad solis splendorem exigitur,’ ὁ ἐν 320 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. § txxxv. τῇ εἵλῃ κεκριμένος, held up to the sunlight and in that proved and approved. Certainly the uses of εἰλικρινής, so far as they afford an argument, and there is an instinct and traditionary feeling which lead to the correct use of a word, long after the secret of its derivation has been altogether lost, are very much in favour of the former etymology. It is not so much the clear, the transparent, as the purged, the winnowed, the unmingled; thus see Plato, Azioch. 370, and note the words with which it habitually associates, as ἀμιγής (Plato, Menex. 245 ἃ: Plutarch, Quest. Rom. 26); ἄμικτος (De Def. Or. 34; ef. De Isid. et Os. 61); ἀπαθής (De Adul. et Amic. 33); ἄκρατος De Anim. Procr. 27); ἀκραιφνής (Philo, Mund. Opif. 2) ; ἀκέραιος (Clement of Rome, Cor. 2; compare Xenophon, Cyrop. viii. 5. 14; Philo, Mund. Opif. 8; Plutarch, Adv. Colot. 5: De Fac. in Orb. Lun, 16: πάσχει τὸ μιγνύμενον " ἀποβάλλει yap τὸ εἰλικρινέθ). In like manner the Etym. Mag. ; εἰλικρινὴς σημαίνει τὸν καθαρὸν Kal ἀμιγῆ ἑτέρου : compare an interesting discussion in Plutarch, De Hi ap. Delph. 20. Various passages, it is quite true, might be adduced in which the notion of clearness and transparency predominates— thus in Philo (Quis Rer. Div. Her. 61) εἰλικρινὲς πῦρ is contrasted with the κλίβανος camvifopev0s—but they are much the fewer, and may very well be secondary and superinduced. The ethical use of εἰλικρινής and εἰλικρίνεια first makes itself distinctly felt in the N. T.; there are only approxi- ° mations to it in classical Greek ; as when Aristotle (Ethic. Nic. x. 6. 4) speaks of some who, ἄγευστοι ὄντες ἡδονῆς eiduκρινοῦς καὶ ἐλευθερίου, ἐπὶ Tas σωματικὰς καταφεύγουσιν. Theophylact defines εἰλικρίνεια well as καθαριότης διανοίας καὶ ἀδολότης οὐδὲν ἔχουσαι συνεσκιασμένον καὶ ὕπουλον : and Basil the Great (ὧν Reg. Brev. Int.) : εἰλικρινὲς εἶναι λογίζομαι TO ἀμυγές, καὶ ἄκρως κεκαθαρμένον ἀπὸ παντὸς ἐναντίου. Τὺ is true to this its central meaning as often as it is employed in the N. T. The Corinthians must § uxxxv. SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 321 purge out the old leaven, that they may keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity (εἰλικρινείας) and truth (1 Cor. v. 8). St. Paul rejoices that in simplicity and in that sincerity which comes of God (ἐν εἰλικρινείᾳ Θεοῦ), not in fleshly wisdom, he has his conversation in the world (2 Cor. i. 12); declares that he is not of those who tamper with and adulterate (καπηλεύοντες) the word of God, but that as of sincerity (ἐξ εἰλικρινείας) he speaks in Christ (2 Cor. ii. 17). Καθαρός, connected with the Latin ‘ castus,’ with the German ‘ heiter,’ in its earliest use (Homer does not know it in any other, Od. vi. 61; xvii. 48), is clean, and this in a physical or non-ethical sense, as opposed to ῥυπαρός. Thus καθαρὸν σῶμα (Xenophon, Gcon. x. 7) is the body not smeared with paint or ointment; and in this sense it is often employed in the N. T. (Matt. xxvii. 59; Heb. x. 22; Rev. xv.6). In another merely physical sense καθαρός is applied to that which is clear and transparent; thus we have καθαρός and διαυγής (Plutarch, De Gen. Socr. 22). But already in Pindar (Pyth. v. 3, καθαρὰ ἀρετή), in Plato (Rep. vi. 496 d, καθαρὸς ἀδικίας τε Kal ἀνοσίων ἔργων), and in the tragic poets it had obtained an ethical meaning. The same is not uncommon in the Septuagint, where it often designates cleanness of heart (Job vill. 6; xxxilil. 9; Ps. xxiii. 4), although far oftener a cleanness merely external or ceremonial (Gen. viii. 20; Lev. xiv. 7). That it frequently runs into the domain of meaning just claimed for εἰλικρινής must be freely admitted. It also is found associated with ἀληθινός (Job viii. 6) ; with ἀμιγής (Philo, Mund. Opif. 8); with ἄκρατος (Xenophon, Cyrop. viii. 7. 203 Plutarch, Aimil. Paul. 34) ; with ἄχραντος (De Is. et Osir. 79); with ἀκήρατος (Plato, Crat. 396 b); καθαρὸς σῖτος is wheat with the chaff winnowed away (Xenophon, Goon. xviii. 8. 9) ; καθαρὸς στρατός, an army rid of its sick and ineffective (Herodotus, i. 211; cf. iv. 135), or, as the same phrase is used in Thucydides (v. 8), an army made up of Y 322 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. § vxxxvi. the best materials, not lowered by an admixture of mercenaries or cowards; the flower of the army, all ἄνδρες ἀχρεῖοι having been set aside (Appian, viii. 117). In the main, however, καθαρός is the pure contemplated under the aspect of the clean, the free from soil or stain; thus θρησκεία καθαρὰ καὶ ἀμίαντος (Jam. i. 27), and compare the constant use of the phrases καθαρὸς φόνου, καθαρὸς ἀδικίας (Plato, Rep. vi. 496 ἃ; Acts xviii. 6), and the like; and the standing antithesis in which the καθαρόν stands to the κοινόν, contemplated as also the ἀκάθαρτον (Heb. ix. 13; Rom. xiv. 14, 20). It may then be affirmed in conclusion, that as the Christian is εἰλικρινής, this grace in him will exclude all double-mindedness, the divided heart (Jam. i. 8; iv. 8), the eye not single (Matt. vi. 22), all hypocrisies (1 Pet. ii. 1) ; while,as he is καθαρὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ, by this are excluded the μιάσματα (2 Pet. ii. 20; cf. Tit. i. 15), the μολυσμός (2 Cor. vii. 1), the ῥυπαρία (Jam. i. 21; 1 Pet. iii. 21; Rev. xxii. 11) of sin. In the first is predicated his freedom from the falsehoods, in the second from the defilements, of the flesh and of the world. If freedom from foreign admixture belongs to both, yet is it a more primary notion in εἰλικρινής, being probably wrapt up in the etymology of the word, a more secondary and superinduced notion in καθαρός. ὃ Ixxxvi. πόλεμος, μάχη. Πόλεμος and μάχη occur often together (Homer, II. i. 177: v. 891; Plato, Tim. 19 e; Job xxxviil. 23 ; Jam. iv. 1); and in like manner πολεμεῖν and μάχεσθαι. There is the same difference between them as between our own ‘ war’ and ‘battle’; ὁ πόλεμος ἸΠελοποννησιακός, the Peloponnesian War; ἡ ἐν Μαραθῶνι μάχη, the battle of Marathon. Dealing with the words in this antithesis, namely that πόλεμος embraces the whole course of hostilities, μάχη the actual shock in arms of hostile armies, Pericles, dissuading the § ΤΧΧΧΥ͂Ι. SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 323 Athenians from yielding to the demands of the Spartans, admits that these with their allies were a match for all the other Greeks together in a single battle, but denies that they would retain th2 same superiority in a war, that is, against such as had their preparations of another kind (μάχῃ μὲν yap μιᾷ πρὸς amavtas” EXXAnvas δυνατοὶ Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι ἀντισχεῖν, πολεμεῖν δὲ μὴ πρὸς ὁμοίαν ἀντιπαρασκευὴν ἀδύνατοι, Thucydides, 1. 141). We may compare Tacitus, Germ. 30: “ Alios ad prelium ire videas, Chattos ad bellum.’ But besides this, while πόλεμος and πολεμεῖν remain true to their primary meaning, and are not transferred to any secondary, it is altogether otherwise with μάχη and μάχεσθαι. Contentions which fall very short of the shock of arms are continually designated by these words. There are μάχαι of every kind: ἐρωτικαί (Xenophon, Hiero, i. 325); νομικαί (Tit. iii. 9; cf. 2 Tim. 11. 23); λογομαχίαι (1 Tim. vi. 4); σκιαμαχίαι: and compare John vi. 52; 2 Tim. ji. 24; Prov. xxvi. 20, 21. EHustathius (on Homer, JI. i. 177) expresses these differences well: τὸ πόλεμοί τε μάχαι τε, ἢ ἐκ παραλλήλου δηλοῖ τὸ αὐτό, ἢ καὶ διαφορά τις ἔστι ταῖς λέξεσιν, εἴγε μάχεται μέν τις καὶ λόγοις, ὡς καὶ ἡ λογομαχία δηλοῖ. καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ ποιητὴς μετ᾽ ὀλίγα φησί, μαχεσσαμένω ἐπέεσσι (ver. 304). καὶ ἄλλως δὲ μᾶχη μέν, αὐτὴ ἡ τῶν ἀνδρῶν συνεισβολή" ὁ δὲ πόλεμος καὶ ἐπὶ παρατάξεων καὶ μαχίμου καιροῦ λέγεται. Tittmann (De Synon. in Ν. T. p. 66): ‘Conveniunt igitur in eo quod dimicationem, contentionem, pugnam denotant, sed πόλεpos et πολεμεῖν de pugna que manibus fit proprie dicuntur, μάχη autem et μάχεσθαι de quicunque contentione, etiam animorum, etiamsi non ad verbera et cedes pervenerit. In illis igitur ipsa pugna cogitatur, in his sufficit cogitare de contentione, quam pugna plerumque sequitur.’ I may observe before quitting this subject that στάσις (Mark xv. 7; Luke xxiii. 19; Acts xxiv. 5; cf. Sophocles, (Edip. Ool. 1228), insurrection or sedition, is by Plato x 2 324 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. § uxxxvu. distinguished from πόλεμος, in that the one is a civil and the other a foreign strife (Rep. v. 470 Ὁ): ἐπὶ yap τῇ τοῦ οἰκειου ἐχθρᾷ στάσις κέκληται, ἐπὶ δὲ TH τῶν ἀλλοτρίων πόλεμος. § Ixxxvii. πάθος, ἐπιθυμία, ὁρμή: ὄρεξι. Πάθος occurs three times in the N.T.; once coordinated with ἐπιθυμία (Col. iii. 5; for παθήματα and ἐπιθυμίαι in like manner joined together see Gal. v. 24); once subordinated to it (πάθος ἐπιθυμίας, τ. Thess. iv. 5); while on the other occasion of its use (Rom. i. 26), the πάθη ἀτιμίας (“vile affections,” A. V.) are kasts that dishonour those who indulge in them. The word belongs to the terminology of the Greek Schools. Thus Cicero (Tusc. Quest. iv. 5): ‘Que Greci πάθη vocant, nobis perturbationes. appellari magis placet quam morbos;’ on this preference see iii. 10; and presently after he adopts Zeno’s definition, ‘aversa a τοί ratione, contra naturam, animi commotio;’ and elsewhere (Offic. ii. 5), ‘motus animi turbatus.’ The exact definition of Zeno, as given by Diogenes Laértius, is as follows (vii. 1. 63): ἔστι δὲ αὐτὸ τὸ πάθος ἡ ἄλογος καὶ παρὰ φύσιν ψυχῆς κίνησις, ἢ ὁρμὴ πλεονάξουσα. Clement of Alexandria has this in his mind when, distinguishing between ὁρμή and πάθος, he writes (Strom. ii. 13): ὁρμὴ; μὲν οὖν φορὰ διανοίας ἐπί τι ἢ ἀπό του" πάθος δέ, πλεονά-. fovea ὁρμὴ: ἡ ὑπερτείνουσα τὰ κατὰ τὸν λόγον μέτρα" ἢ ὁρμὴ. ἐκφερομένη, καὶ ἀπειθὴς λόγῳ (see Zeller, Philos. d. Griechen,, ili. I. 208). So far as the N. T. is concerned, πάθος nowhere obtains. that wide sense which it thus obtained in the Schools; a sense so much wider than that ascribed to ἐπιθυμία, that. this last was only regarded as one of the several πάθη of our nature, being coordinated with ὀργή, φόβος, and the rest (Aristotle, Eth. Nic. ii. 5, 2; Diogenes Laértius, vii. 1. 67). ᾿Επιθυμία, on the contrary, in Scripture is the larger word, including the whole world of active lusts and desires, § uxxxvn. SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, 325 all to which the σάρξ, as the seat of desire and of the natural appetites, impels; while the πάθος is rather the “morosa delectatio,’ not so much the soul’s disease in its more active operations, as the diseased condition out of which these spring, the ‘ morbus libidinis,’ as Bengel has put it well, rather than the ‘libido,’ the ‘lustfulness’ (‘ Leidenschaft’) as distinguished from the ‘Lust.’ Theophylact : πάθος ἡ λύσσα τοῦ σώματος, Kal ὥσπερ πυρετός, ἢ τραῦμα, ἢ ἀλλὴ νόσος. Godet (on Rom. i. 26) : “ Le terme “πάθη, passions, a quelque chose de plus ignoble encore que celui de ἐπιθυμίαι, convoitises, au ver. 24; car il renferme une notion plus prononcée de passivité morale, de honteux esclavage.’ ᾿Επιθυμία, being τοῦ ἡδέος ὄρεξις, as Aristotle (Rhet. i. 11), ἄλογος ὄρεξις, as the Stoics, ‘immoderata appetitio opinati magni boni, rationi non obtemperans,’ as Cicero (Tusc. Quest. iii. 11) defined it, is rendered for the most part in our Translation ‘lust’ (Mark iv. 19, and often) ; but sometimes ‘concupiscence ’ (Rom. vii. 8; Col. iii. 5), and sometimes ‘ desire’ (Luke xxii. 15; Phil. i. 23). It appears now and then, though rarely, in the N. T. ina good sense (Luke xxii. 15; Phil. i. 23; 1 Thess. ii. 17; ef. Prov. x. 24; Ps. cii. 5); much oftener in a bad; not as * concupiscentia” merely, but as ‘ prava concupiscentia,’ which Origen (in Joan. tom. x.) affirms to be the only sense which in the Greek Schools it knew (but see Aristotle, Rhet. i. 11); thus ἐπιθυμία κακή (Col. 111. 5) ; ἐπιθυμίαι σαρκικαί (1 Pet. 11. 11); νεωτερικαί (2 Tim. ii. 22) ; ἀνοήτοι καὶ βχλαβεραί (1 Tim. νἱ. 9); κοσμικαί (Tit. ii. 12) ; φθορᾶς (2 Pet. i. 4) 3 μιασμοῦ (2 Pet. 11. 10); ἀνθρώπων (1 Pet. iv. 2); τοῦ σώματος (Rom. vi. 12); τοῦ διαβόλου (John viii. 44); τῆς ἀπάτης (Ephes. iv. 22); τῆς σαρκός (1 Johnii. 16); τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν (ibid.); and without a qualifying epithet (Rom. vii. 7; 1 Pet.iv. 3; Jude 16; cf. Gen. xlix. 6; Ps. cv. 14). It is then, as Vitringa, in a dissertation De Concupiscentid Vitiosd et Damnabili (Obss. Sac. p. 326 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, § ixxxvu598 sqq.), defines it, ‘vitiosa illa voluntatis affectio, qua. fertur ad appetendum que illicite usurpantur; aut que licite usurpantur, appetit ἀτάκτως :᾿ this same evil sense being ascribed to it in such definitions as that of Clement: of Alexandria (Strom. ii. 20): ἔφεσις καὶ ὄρεξις ἄλογος τοῦ κεχαρισμένου αὐτῇ. Compare iv. 18: ὄρεξιν οὖν ἐπιθυμίας διακρίνουσιν οἱ περὶ ταῦτα δεινοί" καὶ τὴν μέν, ἐπὶ ἡδοναῖς καὶ ἀκολασίᾳ τάττουσιν, ἄλογον οὖσαν: τὴν δὲ ὄρεξιν, ἐπὶ τῶν κατὰ φύσιν ἀναγκαίων, λογικὴν ὑπάρχουσαν κίνησιν. In these δεινοί he of course mainly points to Aristotle (thus. see Rhet. i. 10). Our English word ‘lust,’ once harmless. enough (thus see Deut. vii. 7, Coverdale’s Version, and my Select Glossary, 5. v.), has had very much the same history. The relation in which ἐπιθυμία stands to πάθος it has been already sought to trace. ‘Opp, occurring twice in the N. Τὶ (Acts xiv. 5; Jam. iii. 4), and ὄρεξις, occurring once (Rom. i. 27), are elsewhere often found together; thus in Plutarch (De Amor. Prol. 1; De Rect. Rat. Aud. 18; where see Wyttenbach’s note); and by Eusebius (Prep. Evang. xiv. 765 d). ὋὉρμή, rendered by Cicero on one occasion ‘ appetitio” (Off. ii. 5), ‘appetitus animi’ on another (Fin. v. 7), is thus defined by the Stoics (Plutarch, De Repugn. Stoic. 11 : ἡ ὁρμὴ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου λόγος ἐστὶ προστακτικὸς αὐτῷ τοῦ ποιεῖν. They explain it further as this ‘ motus animi,’ φορὰ ψυχῆς ἐπί τι (see Zeller, Philos. ἃ. Griechen, iii. 1. 206), which, if toward a thing is ὄρεξις, if from it ἔκκλισις. When our Translators render ὁρμή ‘assault’ (Acts xiv. 5), they ascribe to it more than it there implies. Manifestly there was no ‘assault’ actually made on the house where Paul and Barnabas abode; for in such a case it would have been very superfluous for St. Luke to tell us that they “were ware” of it; but only a purpose and intention of assault or onset, ‘ Trieb,’ ‘ Drang,’ as Meyer gives it, And in the same way at Jam. iii. 4, the ὁρμή of the pilot is not the ‘impetus brachiorum,’ but the ‘studium et conatus §ixxxvin. SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 327 voluntatis.” Compare for this use of ὁρμή, Sophocles, Philoct. 237; Plutarch, De Rect. Rat. Aud. 1; Prov. iii. 25; and the many passages in which ὁρμή is joined with προαίρεσις (Josephus, Antt. xix. 6. 3). But while the ὁρμή is thus oftentimes the hostile motion and spring toward an object, with a purpose of propelling and repelling it still further from itself, as for example the ὁρμή of the spear, of the assaulting host, the ὄρεξις (from ὀρέγεσθαι) is always the reaching out after and toward an object, with a purpose of drawing that after which it reaches to itself, and making it its own. Very commonly the word is used to express the appetite for food (Plutarch, De Frat. Am. 2; Symp. vi. 2. 1); so too ‘orexis’ in the Latin of the silver age (Juvenal, Sat. vi. 427; xi. 127); in the Platonic Definitions (414 δ) philosophy is described as τῆς τῶν ὄντων ἀεὶ ἐπιστήμης ὄρεξις. After what vile enjoyments the heathen, as judged by St. Paul, are regarded as reaching out, and seeking to make these their own, is sufficiently manifest from the context of the one passage in the N. T. where ὄρεξις occurs (Rom. i. 27; cf. Plutarch, Quest. Nat. 21). eee ,
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
καθαρός. The word and its derivatives have a wide range of use, being applied physically to animals, land, grain, bread, milk, etc., e.g. Chrest. I. 89° (A.D. 149) κ]αὶ δοκιμάσας (μόσχον) ἐσφράγισα ὡς ἔστιν καθαρός, BGU IV. 1018° (iii/A.D.) παραδώσο (/.dow) τὰς ἀρούρας καθαρὰς ὡς παρέλαβον, P | Oxy VIII. 1124! (A.D. 26) πυρὸν νέο[ν] καθαρὸν ἄδολον, 0. IV. 736% (c. A.D. 1) ἄρτου καθαροῦ παιδ(ῶν), BGU IV. 11098 (B.C. 5) θηλάζουσαν τῶι ἰδίῳ αὐτῆς γάλακτι καθαρῷ, and metaphorically to ‘‘freedom” from disadvantages of various kinds, as in 74. 10407! (ii/A.D.) καθαρ[ὰ]ν yap ἔχων τὴν ψυχὴν οὐδενὸς ἐπιστί. . . .]y τῶν διαβαλόντων, or in the epitaphs Aazbe/ 516! (c. A.D. 1) καθα[ρ]ὰν δὲ φυλάξας [σωφροσύνης ἀρετὴν τόν]δε λέλονχε τάφον, 653. (iii/A.D.) ὡς ἀνίῃ καθαρή, of a mind freed from care: cf. also P Lond 178'3 (A.D. 145) (= II. p. 207) τὸ δὲ χειρόγραφον τοῦτο δισσὸν γραφὲν καθαρὸν ἀπὸ ἐπιγραφῆς καὶ ἀλίφαδος, P Oxy X. 1277}3 (A.D. 255) κυρία ἡ πρᾶσις ἁπλῆ γραφεῖσα καθαρά (‘free from mistake”). The old idea that καθαρὸς ἀπό is ‘* Hebraistic ’ has been completely exploded by Deissmann BS p. 196, where the formula free of a money-debt is illustrated by passages scattered over a period of nearly three hundred years, e.g. BGU I. 197*4 (A.D. 17) καθαρῷ ἀπὸ δημοσίων Kal παντὸς εἴδους, 2). 9419 (A.D. 289) καθαρὰς ἀπὸ οὖς δημοσίων τελεσμάτων : cf. also BS p. 221 s.v. ὀφειλή. P Hib I. 84(α)5 σῖτον καθαρὸν ἀπὸ πάντων is an interesting new ex. coming as it does from B.C. 285-4 (not B.C. 301 as formerly believed: see Egypt Exploration Fund—drchacological Report, 1907-8, p. 50). In P Lond 1157 verso}. (a.p. 246) (= III. p. 110) ψιλὴ γῆ ἀπὸ [ἀ]μπέλου there seems to bea similar use with ψιλός. For καθαρὰ ποιήσῃ = | | 545}5 (ii/B.C.) THY. -
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
καθαρός (katharos) — clean. κᾰθᾰρ-ός, ά, όν, Doric dialect καθαρός [Refs 5th c.AD+], Aeolic dialect κόθ- [Refs 7th c.BC+]; compare ἀνακαθαίρω, κάθαρσις:
1. physically clean, spotless (not in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of persons, cleanly, κ. περὶ ἐσθῆτα [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. clear of admixture, clear, pure, especially of water, Βορυσθένης ῥέει καθαρὸς παρὰ θολεροῖσι [LXX+5th c.BC+]; κ. φάος, φέγγος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of white bread, Wilcken [LXX+3rd c.BC+]; ἄλευρον κ. [Refs]; χρυσίον, ἀργύριον -ώτατον, [Refs 5th c.BC+]winnowed, πυρὸς κ. ἄδολος [Refs 2nd c.BC+], etc.; of metals, etc., σίδηρος [Refs 5th c.AD+], etc.; ἀρωμάτων, καθαρῶν, λαχάνων, uncertain meaning in [Refs 4th c.AD+]; ἄκρατος καὶ κ. νοῦς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of feelings, unmixed, μῖσος τῆς ἀλλοτρίας φύσεως [Refs 6th c.BC+]; serene, φρήν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. clear of objects, free, ἐν καθαρῷ (i.e. τόπῳ) in an open space, ἐν κ., ὅθι δὴ νεκύων διεφαίνετο χῶρος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πάξαις Ἄλτιν ἐν κ. in a clearing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν κ. βῆναι to leave the way clear, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τῷ κ. οἰκεῖν live in the clear sunshine, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; διὰ καθαροῦ ῥέειν, of a river whose course is clear and open, [Refs 5th c.BC+] substantive, κελεύθῳ ἐν κ[Refs 5th c.BC+]; χῶρος κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἡλίῳ κ. in the open sun, opposed to σκιά, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥς σφι τὸ ἐμποδὼν ἐγεγόνεε κ. was cleared away, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ποιεῖσθαι τὰς ἀρκυστασίας set up the nets in open ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently of land, free from weeds, etc., παραδώσω τὸν κλῆρον κ. ἀπὸ θρύου καλάμου ἀγρώστεως κτλ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; παραδώσω τὰς ἀρούρας κ. ὡς ἔλαβον [Refs 3rd c.AD+] clear of the marks, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθαρὸν τῶν προβόλων, of a fort, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of documents, free from mistakes, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; χειρόγραφον κ. ἀπὸ ἐπιγραφῆς καὶ ἀλείφαδος free from interlineation and erasure, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
3. b metaphorically, free, clear of debt, liability, etc., κ. ἀπὸ δημοσίων καὶ παντὸς εἴδους [Refs 1st c.AD+]; γῆ κ. ἀπὸ γεωργίας βασιλικῆς [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; καθαρὰ ποιῆσαι to give a discharge, [Refs]; in moral sense, free from pollution, καθαρῷ θανάτῳ an honourable death, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently free from guilt or defilement, pure, χεῖρες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔρχομαι ἐκ κοθαρῶν κοθαρά Orph[Refs]; of ceremonial purity, καθαρὰ καὶ ἁγνή εἰμι ἀπό τε τῶν ἄλλων τῶν οὐ καθαρευόντων καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς συνουσίας Jusj. cited in [LXX+4th c.BC+]; especially of persons purified after pollution, ἱκέτης προσῆλθες κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of things, βωμοί, θύματα, δόμος, μέλαθρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, clear of or from.. , κ. ἐγκλημάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀδικίας, κακῶν, [NT+5th c.BC+]; ceremonially pure, of food, ὄσπριον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of victims, [LXX+2nd c.AD+], etc.; κ. ἡμέραι, opposed to ἀποφράδες, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. c in active sense, purifying, cleansing, λέβης [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. of birth, pure, genuine, σπέρμα θεοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῶν Ἀθηναίων ὅπερ ἐστράτευε καθαρὸν ἐξῆλθε, i.e. were citizens of pure blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ τῷ γένει μὴ κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; κ. ἀστοί [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθαρόν a real, genuine saying, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. Τίμων a Timon pure and simple, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ζημία κ., of a person, Alciphro 3.21.
5. of language, pure, ὀνόματα, λέξις, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; so of writers, [Λυσίας] κ. τὴν ἑρμηνείαν [Refs]; also, clear, simple, σεμνὸς καὶ κ. [Refs 4th c.AD+]
5. b Grammars, preceded by a vowel, pure, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; containing a 'pure' syllable, [Refs]
6. without blemish, sound, ὁ κ. στρατός, τὸ κ. τοῦ στρατοῦ, the sound portion of the army, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
7. clear, exact, ἂν κ. ὦσιν αἱ ψῆφοι if the accounts are exactly balanced, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. adverb purely, ἁγνῶς καὶ καθαρῶς [Refs 8th c.BC+]: comparative -ωτέρως[Refs 3rd c.AD+]
II.2. of birth, κ. γεγονέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. with clean hands, honestly, σὺν δίκῃ.. καὶ κ. [Refs 6th c.BC+]; δικαίως καὶ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.4. clearly, plainly, λέγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.5. of language, purely, correctly, -ώτερον διαλέγεσθαι [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.6. entirely, [Refs 5th c.BC+] in its purest form, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
