Strong’s
H5356aNoun, masculine4 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 20:5וּבְנִקְיֹן
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.”
- Psalm 26:6בְּנִקָּיוֹן
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
- Hosea 8:5נִקָּיֹן
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Brown-Driver-Briggs
נִקָּיוֹן n.[m.] innocency
1. freedom from guilt, innocency
2. freedom from punishment
3. in physical sense, cleanness of teeth
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.