to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow

to separate from profane things and dedicate to God

1. consecrate things to God

2. dedicate people to God

to purify

1. to cleanse externally

2. to purify by expiation: free from the guilt of sin

3. to purify internally by renewing of the soul

blood

1. of man or animals

2. refers to the seat of life

3. of those things that resemble blood, grape juice

blood shed, to be shed by violence, slay, murder

for

a young cow, heifer

1. of the red heifer with whose ashes, by the Mosaic law, those were to be sprinkled who had become defiled

if, whether

cleanness, purity

1. in a Levitical sense

and, also, even, indeed, but

to make common

1. to make (Levitically) unclean, render unhallowed, defile, profane

2. to declare or count unclean

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

to the advantage of

at, near, by

to, towards, with, with regard to

to sprinkle

to cleanse by sprinkling, hence to purify, cleanse

flesh (the soft substance of the living body, which covers the bones and is permeated with blood) of both man and beasts

the body

1. the body of a man

2. used of natural or physical origin, generation or relationship

   1. born of natural generation

3. the sensuous nature of man, "the animal nature"

   1. without any suggestion of depravity

   2. the animal nature with cravings which incite to sin

   3. the physical nature of man as subject to suffering

a living creature (because possessed of a body of flesh) whether man or beast

the flesh, denotes mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart from divine influence, and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God

ashes: placed on sackcloth as a token of grief

a bull or ox

male goat