Basic HTML Version
Note:
The distinction, sometimes suggested, between No. 3 as being disciplinary,
with special reference to the sufferer, and No. 5, as being penal, with reference to the
satisfaction of him who inflicts it, cannot be maintained in the
Greek of NT times.
PURCHASE
1.
(
1
, 2932): see
OBTAIN
, A, No. 4.
2.
(
$ !
, 4046) signifies “to gain” or “get for oneself, purchase”;
middle voice in Acts 20:28 and 1 Tim. 3:13 (
RV
“gain”); see
GAIN
.
3.
(
$1
, 59) is rendered “to purchase” in the
RV
of Rev. 5:9; 14:3, 4.
See
BUY
, No. 1.
Note:
For
, “purchased possession,” Eph. 1:14, see
POSSESSION
.
PURE, PURENESS, PURITY
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
2
, 53), “pure from defilement, not contaminated” (from the same root
as
, “holy”), is rendered “pure” in Phil. 4:8; 1 Tim. 5:22; Jas. 3:17; 1 John 3:3; see
CHASTE
.
2.
(
$
, 2513), “pure,” as being cleansed, e.g., Matt. 5:8; 1 Tim. 1:5;
3:9; 2 Tim. 1:3; 2:22; Titus 1:15; Heb. 10:22; Jas. 1:27; 1 Pet. 1:22; Rev. 15:6; 21:18;
22:1 (in some mss.). See
CHASTE
, Note,
CLEAN
, A.
Note:
In 1 Pet. 1:22 the
KJV
, “with a pure heart,” follows those mss. which have this
adjective (
RV
, “from the heart”).
3.
(
*
$
)
, 1506) signifies “unalloyed, pure”; (a) it was used of
unmixed substances; (b) in the NT it is used of moral and ethical “purity,” Phil. 1:10,
“sincere”; so the
RV
in 2 Pet. 3:1 (
KJV
, “pure”). Some regard the etymological meaning as
“tested by the sunlight” (Cremer).¶ See
CHASTE
, Note,
SINCERE
.
Note:
Wine mixed with water may be
, “not being contaminated”; it is not
, when there is the admixture of any element even though the latter is “pure” in
itself.
B. Nouns.
1.
(
2
, 54), the state of being
(A, No. 1), occurs in 2 Cor. 6:6,
“pureness”; 11:3, in the best mss., “(and the) purity,”
RV
.¶
2.
(
2
&
, 47), synonymous with No. 1, “purity,” occurs in 1 Tim. 4:12; 5:2,
where it denotes the chastity which excludes all impurity of spirit, manner, or act.¶
PURGE
1.
(
&$
, 2508), akin to
(see
PURE
, A, No. 2), “to cleanse,” is
used of pruning, John 15:2,
KJV
, “purgeth” (
RV
, “cleanseth”).¶ In the Sept., 2 Sam. 4:6;
Isa. 28:27; Jer. 38:28.¶
2.
(
#
&$
, 1571), “to cleanse out, cleanse thoroughly,” is said of
“purging” out leaven, 1 Cor. 5:7; in 2 Tim. 2:21, of “purging” oneself from those who
utter “profane babblings,” vv. 16-18.¶