To be initiated beneath the fecund fronds of this tree, with these deep resonances of meaning, is to be made ritually pure or white.

They used to bring pregnant women there to give birth and rear their children in this ritually pure place.

To the Egyptians, a place or object that was ḏsr-"sacred"-was isolated and ritually pure, and thus fit for a god to inhabit.

If the criteria for tzaraath have still not been met, the afflicted individual is declared tahor (טהר, "ritually pure").

If the negah was declared ritually pure and later it spread, it must be shown once again to a kohen, who will then declare it tzaraath.

A ritually pure kohen slaughtered the heifer, and sprinkled of its blood in the direction of the Temple seven times.

Since the liquid, in its ritually pure state, is considered beneficial, participants may choose to drink a little of it, or provide some to infants or the dying.

Like many of his peers, Ayatollah Sistani considers them to be ritually pure:

A person in such a state needs to take a ghusl in order to become ritually pure and be able to perform his salah.

Servius describes the substance as pius (perhaps "reverently prepared" in this sense) and castus ("ritually pure").