Soap — Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

Cleansing agent extracted from a number of alkali-bearing plants. The alkali was gathered from the ashes of the burned plants and formed into a detergent. Saltwort, soapwort, and glasswort were alkali-bearing plants indigenous to western Asia and known to the ancient Hebrews. Soap was used primarily for cleansing purposes. In Jeremiah 2:22 soap is used to clean the body, and in Malachi 3:2, to wash clothes.

Show passage in OET: JER 2:22

OET-RV JER 2:22

22 because even if you wash yourself with bleach or use heaps of soap,
⇔ your guilt remains as a stain in front of me.
§ That is the declaration of my master, Yahweh.

OET-LV JER 2:22

22 If/because though you _will _wash with_soda and_you _will _increase to/for_you(fs) soap iniquity _of_your is_stained to/for_my_face/front the _utterance _of my_master YHWH.

Show passage in OET: MAL 3:2

OET-RV MAL 3:2

2 But who could survive it when he comes? Who can stand when he appears, because he’ll be like the refiner’s fire and like the cleaners’ powerful soap?

OET-LV MAL 3:2

2 And_who will_endure DOM the _day _of his _coming and_who is_the_one _who _will_stand when_appears_he if/because he is_like_the_fire a _refiner and_like_the_soap washers.

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