Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Cleanness Roget’s Thesaurus §652
N. cleanness, cleanliness, purity, cleaning, purification, defecation, purgation, lustration, detersion, abstersion, epuration, mundation|, ablution, lavation, colature|, disinfection, drainage, sewerage, lavatory, laundry, washhouse, washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman, scavenger, dustman, sweep, white wings brush, broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter, blotter, napkin, cloth, maukin|, malkin|, handkerchief, towel, sudary, doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab, cover, drugget, wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative, purifier, disinfectant, aperient, benzene, benzine benzol, benolin, bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative
V. be clean, render clean &c
Adj. clean, clean, cleanly, cleanse, pure, mundify|, immaculate, rinse, spotless, wring, stainless, flush, taintless, full, trig, wipe, without a stain, mop, unstained, sponge, unspotted, scour, unsoiled, swab, unsullied, scrub, untainted, brush up, uninfected, wash, sweet, lave, sweet as a nut, launder, neat, buck, spruce, absterge|, tidy, deterge, trim, decrassify, gimp, clear, clean as a new penny, purify, like a cat in pattens, depurate, cleaned, despumate, kempt, defecate, abstergent, purge, cathartic, expurgate, cleansing, elutriate, purifying, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep, rout out, clear out, sweep out &c, make a clean sweep of
Adv. neatly, clean as a whistle
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
12 KJV and 12 BSB verses contain “Cleansing”
And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
The priest who performs the cleansing shall present the one to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
On the eighth day he is to bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD.
This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
“Do not tell anyone,” Jesus instructed him. “But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as to say, a cleansing: but many men call it Nephi.
Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.