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Pure [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver of gold. pure wine is very scare.

2. Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy.

3. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil. Habakkuk 1:13 . Proverbs 20:9 .

4. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27 .

5. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.

6. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.

7. No hand of strife is pure but that which wins.

8. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition.

9. Disinterested; as pure benevolence.

10. Chaste; as a pure virgin.

11. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:15 .

12. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20 .

13. Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure

14. Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else; as a pure villain. He did that from pure compassion, or pure good nature.

Pure [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To purify; to cleanse. [Not in use.]

Pure [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

2. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.

3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.

4. Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

5. Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Pured [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Purified; refined.

Puree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

Purely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In a pure manner; with an entire separation of heterogeneous or foul matter. Isaiah 1:25 .

2. Without any mixture of improper or vicious words or phrases.

3. Innocently; without guilt.

4. Merely; absolutely; without connection with any thing else; completely; totally. The meeting was purely accidental.

Purely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Nicely; prettily.

Pureness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Clearness; an unmixed state; separation or freedom from any heterogeneous or foreign matter; as the pureness of water or other liquor; the pureness of a metal; the pureness of marl or clay; the pureness of air.

2. Freedom from moral turpitude or guilt.

3. May we evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living.

4. Simplicity; freedom from mixture or composition.

5. An essence eternal and spiritual, of absolute pureness and simplicity.

6. Freedom from vicious or improper words, phrases or modes of speech; as pureness of style.

7. Pure villenage, in the feudal law, is a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord; opposed to privileged villenage.

Pureness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

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Genesis 2:12

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

Exodus 25:11

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 25:17

And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Exodus 25:24

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 25:29

And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.

Exodus 25:31

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

Exodus 25:36

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

The buds and branches are to be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

Exodus 25:38

And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

The wick trimmers and their trays must be of pure gold.

Exodus 25:39

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

The lampstand and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.

Exodus 27:20

And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

Exodus 28:14

And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.

Exodus 28:22

And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.

For the breastpiece, make braided chains like cords of pure gold.

Exodus 28:36

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

Exodus 30:3

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.

Exodus 30:23

Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,

Exodus 30:34

And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense—in equal measures,

Exodus 30:35

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

Exodus 31:8

And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

the table with its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

Exodus 37:2

And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.

He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.

Exodus 37:6

And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.