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# זָכוּ

Biblical Aramaic

**purity** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

purity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5db_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָכוּ: n.f. purity, innocence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5db_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (K§ 61, 4) n.f. purity, innocence (cf. BH זָכָה, also 𝔗 דְּכָא, Syriac ܙܟܳܐ be clean (Arabic ܙܺܝܘܳܐ is be bright (of fire), acute (of mind), etc.), or Arabic ذَكَا be pure, good, 𝔗 זְכָא, Syriac ܙܟܳܐ be pure, innocent; are these forms with ז secondary? or ancient ‖?);—abs. ז׳ Dn 6:23 innocence in God’s sight.

### Jastrow 1903

זָכוּ

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. זְכוּתָא

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: innocence (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.23/#tree)

אֱלָהִ֞י שְׁלַ֣ח מַלְאֲכֵ֗הּ וּֽסֲגַ֛ר פֻּ֥ם אַרְיָוָתָ֖א וְלָ֣א חַבְּל֑וּנִי כָּל־קֳבֵ֗ל דִּ֤י קָֽדָמ֙וֹהִי֙ זָכוּ֙ הִשְׁתְּכַ֣חַת לִ֔י וְאַ֤ף קָֽדָמָךְ֙ מַלְכָּ֔א חֲבוּלָ֖ה לָ֥א עַבְדֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* God my he.sent angel his and he.closed the.mouth of the.lions and not they harmed.me as to because that before him innocence it.was.found to me and also before you O king a.hurtful.act not I.have.done

*JPS 1917:* My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5db_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1494/lemma_3a_5d6_5b8_5db_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).