καθαροί (katharoi)

καθαροί is an Ancient Greek form of καθαρός, meaning “clean, pure”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando 19: … ων ἐπιεικείας καὶ φιλανθρωπίας διεξιόντες. ὅθεν εὖ μάλα δεῖ προσέχειν ἑαυτοῖς περὶ τοὺς ἑτέρων ἐπαίνους, ὅπως καθαροὶ καὶ ἀνύποπτοι φιλαυτίας καὶ περιαυτολογίας ὦσι, καὶ μὴ δοκῶμεν Πάτροκλον πρόφασιν σφᾶς δʼ αὐτοὺς διʼ ἐκείνων …

New Testament, John 13.10: λέγει αὐτῷ Ἰησοῦς Ὁ λελουμένος οὐκ ἔχει χρείαν [εἰ μὴ τοὺς πόδας] νίψασθαι, ἀλλʼ ἔστιν καθαρὸς ὅλος· καὶ ὑμεῖς καθαροί ἐστε, ἀλλʼ οὐχὶ πάντες.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.44.6: ἐπίκλησις μὲν δή ἐστιν αὐτοῖς Καθαροί, περὶ μεγίστων δὲ αὐτόθι καθεστήκασιν οἱ ὅρκοι· καὶ ὀνόματα μὲν τῶν θεῶν οὐκ ἴσασιν ἢ καὶ εἰδότες οὐ θέλουσιν …

All forms of καθαρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.