Purge
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 2 Chronicles 34:3
- Last Reference: Hebrews 9:14
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1305 Used 1 time
- H2212 Used 1 time
- H2398 Used 1 time
- H2891 Used 1 time
- H3722 Used 2 times
- G1245 Used 2 times
- G1571 Used 1 time
- G2511 Used 1 time
PURGE, verb transitive purj. [Latin purgo.]
1. To cleanse or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign or superfluous; as, to purge the body by evacuation; to purge the Augean stable. It is followed by away, of, or off. We say, to purge away or to purge off filth, and to purge a liquor of its scum.
2. To clear from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime; to purge away sin.
PURGE away our sins, for thy name's sake. Psalms 79:9.
PURGE me with hyssop and I shall be clean. Psalms 51:7.
3. To clear from accusation or the charge of a crime, as in ordeal.
4. To remove what is offensive; to sweep away impurities. Ezekiel 20:38.
5. To clarify; to defecate; as liquors.
PURGE, verb intransitive To become pure by clarification.
1. To have frequent or preternatural evacuations by stool.
PURGE, noun A medicine that evacuates the body by stool; a cathartic.
PURG'ED, participle passive Purified; cleansed; evacuated.
PURG'ER, noun A person or thing that purges or cleanses.
1. A cathartic.