נִקָּיוֹן
niq.qa.von
“innocence”
Definition
clearness (literally or figuratively)
or נִקָּיֹן; from H5352 (נָקָה);
- innocency 1a) freedom from guilt, innocency 1b) freedom from punishment 1c) cleanness of teeth (physical sense)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
נִקָּיוֹן appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread,yet you did not return to Me,”declares the LORD.
Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria.My anger burns against them.How long will they beincapable of innocence?
I wash my hands in innocencethat I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure;in innocence I have washed my hands.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.