Topic
Washing
13 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 21:6Nave Of hands, a token of innocence
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
- Psalms 26:6Nave Of hands, a token of innocence
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
- Psalms 51:7Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- Psalms 73:13Nave Of hands, a token of innocence
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
- Proverbs 30:12Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
- Isaiah 1:16Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
- Isaiah 4:4Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
- Zechariah 13:1Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
- Matthew 27:24Nave Of hands, a token of innocence
¶ When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
- Mark 7:1–9Easton
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews,…
- 1 Corinthians 6:11Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
- Ephesians 5:26Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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- Titus 3:5 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of regeneration
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions prescribed by tradition, according to which “the disciples ought to have gone down to the side of the lake, washed their hands thoroughly, ‘rubbing the fist of one hand in the hollow of the other, then placed the ten finger-tips together, holding the hands up, so that any surplus water might flow down to the elbow, and thence to the ground.’” To neglect to do this had come to be regarded as a great sin, a sin equal to the breach of any of the ten commandments. Moses had commanded washings oft, but always for some definite cause; but the Jews multiplied the legal observance till they formed a large body of precepts. To such precepts about ceremonial washing Mark here refers. (See ABLUTION.)
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Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.