καθαρισμός

καθαρισμός — katharismós

καθαρισμός, καθαρισμοῦ, ὁ (καθαρίζω), a cleansing, purification; a ritual purgation or washing (Vulg.purgatio, pnrifcatio, emundatio): used with a genitive of the subjunctive, τῶν Ἰουδαίων, of the washings of the Jews before and after their meals, Joh 2:6; without a genitive, of baptism (a symbol of moral cleansing), Joh 3:25; with a genitive of the object, and that a person — of the levitical purification of women after childbirth, Luk 2:22; and of lepers, Mar 1:44; Luk 5:14; with a genitive of the thing, ἁμαρτιῶν or ἁμαρτημάτων, a cleansing from the guilt of sins (see καθαρίζω, 1 b. β.): wrought now by baptism, 2Pe 1:9, now by the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, Heb 1:3 on which cf. Kurtz, Commentary, p. 70; (Exo 30:10; τῆς ἁμαρτίας μου, Job 7:21; of an atonement, Lucian, asin. 22).