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Purify

King James Dictionary

PU'RIFY, L. purifico purus, pure, and facio, to make.

1. To make pure or clear to free from extraneous admixture as, to purify liquors or metals to purify the blood to purify the air.
2. To free from pollution ceremonially to remove whatever renders unclean and unfit for sacred services.

Purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day purify all your raiment. Numbers 31

3. To free from guilt or the defilement of sin as, to purify the heart.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2

4. To clear form improprieties or barbarisms as, to purify a language.

PU'RIFY, To grow or become pure or clear. Liquors will gradually purify.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Purify'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​p/purify.html.