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# נִקָּיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5356

**innocency** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

innocency [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5356/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִקָּיוֹן: innocency [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5356/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] innocency;—נ׳ ψ 26:6; 73:13; נִקָּיֹן Ho 8:5; cstr. נִקְּיוֹן Am 4:6; נִקְיֹן Gn 20:5;— freedom from guilt, innocency: נ׳ כַּפַּי Gn 20:5 (RJE); אֶרְחַץ בנ׳ כַּפָּ֑י ψ 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocency = 73:13. freedom from punishment Ho 8:5. in physical sense, נִקְיוֹן שִׁנַּיִם cleanness of teeth (without food) Am 4:6 (but read perhaps after 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 קַהֲיוֹן bluntness, so LagBN 201).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: innocence (3); cleanness (1); the innocence (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 26:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.26.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.26.6/#tree)

אֶרְחַ֣ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּ֑י וַאֲסֹבְבָ֖ה אֶת־מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* I.wash in innocence palms my and I.go.around (et) altar your O.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O LORD,

[Psalms 73:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.13/#tree)

אַךְ־רִ֭יק זִכִּ֣יתִי לְבָבִ֑י וָאֶרְחַ֖ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* surely emptiness I.have.kept.pure heart my and I.have.washed in innocence palms my

*JPS 1917:* Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5356.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5356/): 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).