καθαρός: Difference between revisions

|txtha=καθαρά, καθαρόν; ([[akin]] to Latin castus, incestus, English [[chaste]], [[chasten]]; [[Curtius]], § 26; Vanicek, p. 177); from [[Homer]] [[down]]; the Sept. [[mostly]] for טָהור; [[clean]], [[pure]] ([[free]] from the [[admixture]] or [[adhesion]] of [[anything]] [[that]] soils, adulterates, corrupts);<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[physically]]: in [[χρυσίον]], purified by [[fire]], ὁ λελουμένος ... [[καθαρός]] [[ὅλος]] ([[where]] the [[idea]] winch 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]] [[contact]] [[with]] the unrenewed [[world]]'), [[clean]], i. e. the [[use]] of [[which]] is [[not]] [[forbidden]], imparts no [[uncleanness]]: πάντα καθαρά, [[free]] from [[corrupt]] [[desire]], from [[sin]] and [[guilt]]: [[ὑμεῖς]] καθαροί, οἱ καθαροί τῇ [[καρδία]] (as respects [[heart]] (Winer's Grammar, § 31,6a.)), [[καθαρός]] χεῖρας, [[Herodotus]] 1,35; [[κατά]] τό [[σῶμα]] καί [[κατά]] [[τήν]] ψυχήν, [[Plato]], Crat., p. 405b.); [[free]] from [[every]] [[admixture]] of [[what]] is false, [[sincere]], ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας, R G in ἐν καθαρά συνειδήσει, [[genuine]] (joined [[with]] [[ἀμίαντος]]) [[θρησκεία]], [[blameless]], [[innocent]], [[ἀπό]] τίνος, [[pure]] from, i. e. [[unstained]] [[with]] the [[guilt]] of, [[anything]] (Winer s Grammar, § 30,6a.; Buttmann, 157f (137f)): [[ἀπό]] [[τοῦ]] αἵματος, Susanna 46 Alex., cf. καθαρᾶς ἔχειν τάς χεῖρας [[ἀπό]] [[τοῦ]] φόνου, Josephus, Antiquities 4,8, 16; in classical Greek [[with]] a [[simple]] genitive, as φόνου, [[Plato]], legg. 9, p. 864e.; cf. Passow, [[under]] the [[word]], p. 1528{a}; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], 3); Kühner, § 421,4ii., p. 344.<br /><b class="num">d.</b> in a levitical and [[ethical]] [[sense]]: πάντα καθαρά [[ὑμῖν]], [[ἔνειμι]]. (Synonym: [[see]] [[εἰλικρινής]]; cf. Westcott on 1 John 3:3.)