katharismos denotes cleansing in prescribed purification settings and in statements concerning sins.

The dominant use concerns cleansing within prescribed purification customs, including completed days, priestly offerings, water jars, and a dispute about purification. A smaller group places cleansing in relation to sins: one clause speaks of making it, and another of forgetting it in connection with former sins.

1. Prescribed purification and its observance · dominant

   The genitive singular form occurs in clauses about completed days of purification and an offering brought before a priest in Luke 2:22, Luke 5:14, and Mark 1:44. John 2:6 places the accusative singular form in the statement about stone jars used according to a Jewish purification custom, while John 3:25 reports a controversy about purification.

   John 2:6John 3:25Luke 2:22Luke 5:14Mark 1:44
2. Cleansing connected with sins · occasional

   In Hebrews 1:3, the accusative singular form follows the clause that the APB renders “after making cleansing of sins.” In 2 Peter 1:9, the genitive singular form occurs in the phrase the APB renders “the cleansing of his former sins,” which the person described has forgotten.

   2 Peter 1:9Hebrews 1:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “purification” in the custom, controversy, and completed-days contexts, and “cleansing” for the offerings and statements concerning sins. These English terms show the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed one-to-one rendering.