Washing
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Washing in the Bible Dictionary
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Of hands, a token of innocence
Deut 21:6; Ps 26:6; 73:13; Matt 27:24
6 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:
Deuteronomy 21:66 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Psalms 26:613 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Psalms 73:1324 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.
Matthew 27:24 - See Ablution
- See Purification
- Figurative
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Of regeneration
Ps 51:7; Prov 30:12; Isa 1:16; 4:4; Zech 13:1; 1 Cor 6:11; Eph 5:26; Titus 3:5
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms 51:712 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Proverbs 30:1216 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isaiah 1:164 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.
Isaiah 4:41 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.
Zechariah 13:111 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.
1 Corinthians 6:1126 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Ephesians 5:265 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Titus 3:5
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
