NUMBERS 19:19

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.”

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Numbers 19:19 Translation & Meaning

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And the clean הַטָּהֹר֙ Pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense) clean
person (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
shall sprinkle וְהִזָּ֤ה To spirt, i.e., besprinkle (especially in expiation) sprinkle
upon עַל Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications upon
the unclean הַטָּמֵ֔א Foul in a religious sense unclean
on the third הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֖י Third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell) third
day, בַּיּ֥וֹם A day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb) day
and on the seventh הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑י Seventh seventh
day: וּבַיּ֣וֹם A day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb) day
and on the seventh הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י Seventh seventh
day בַּיּ֣וֹם A day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb) day
he shall purify וְחִטְּאוֹ֙ Properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn purify
himself, and wash וְכִבֶּ֧ס To trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative himself wash
his clothes, בְּגָדָ֛יו A covering, also treachery or pillage clothes
and bathe וְרָחַ֥ץ To lave (the whole or a part of a thing) bathe
himself in water, בַּמַּ֖יִם Water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen himself water
and shall be clean וְטָהֵ֥ר To be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy) clean
at even. בָּעָֽרֶב׃ Dusk even

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  • 17  And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

  • 18  And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

  • 19  And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

  • 20  But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

  • 21  And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.




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