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It conveys the idea of innocence and purity, often in a legal or moral sense. In the context of the Hebrew Bible, it is associated with the condition of being blameless before God and man.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In ancient Israelite society, the concept of purity and innocence was deeply intertwined with religious and legal practices. The Israelites were called to live in a manner that reflected God's holiness, and this included maintaining moral and ritual purity. The idea of innocence was not only a personal moral state but also a communal expectation, as the community's relationship with God depended on their collective purity and adherence to His laws.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>from <a href="/hebrew/5352.htm">naqah</a><br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>innocency<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>cleanness (1), innocence (4).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Brown-Driver-Briggs</div> <font class="hebrew2">נִקָּיוֺן</font> <font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>noun [masculine]</b></font> <font size="+1"><b>innocency</b></font>; — <font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">נ</font> <a href="/interlinear/psalms/26-6.htm">Psalm 26:6</a>; <a href="/interlinear/psalms/73-13.htm">Psalm 73:13</a>; <font class="hebrew2">נִקָּיֹן</font> <a href="/interlinear/hosea/8-5.htm">Hosea 8:5</a>; construct <font class="hebrew2">נִקְּיוֺן</font> <a href="/interlinear/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6</a>; <font class="hebrew2">נִקְיֹן</font> <a href="/interlinear/genesis/20-5.htm">Genesis 20:5</a>; — <p><font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>1</b></font> <em>freedom from guilt, innocency:</em> <font class="hebrew2">כַּמַּי</font> <font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">נ</font> <a href="/interlinear/genesis/20-5.htm">Genesis 20:5</a> (R<sup>JE</sup>); <font class="hebrew2">דַּמָּ֑י</font> <font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">אֶרְחַץ בנ</font> <a href="/interlinear/psalms/26-6.htm">Psalm 26:6</a> <em>I will wash my hands in innocency</em> = <a href="/interlinear/psalms/73-13.htm">Psalm 73:13</a>. <p><font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>2</b></font> <em>freedom from punishment</em> <a href="/interlinear/hosea/8-5.htm">Hosea 8:5</a>. <p><font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>3</b></font> <font size="+1"><b>in physical sense</b></font>, <font class="hebrew2">נִקְיוֺם שִׁנַּיִם</font> <em>cleanness of teeth</em> (without food) <a href="/interlinear/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6</a> (but read perhaps after <font class="hebrew2">ᵐ5</font> <font class="hebrew2">ᵑ6</font> <font class="hebrew2">ᵑ7</font> <font class="hebrew2">קַהֲיוֺן</font> <em>bluntness</em>, so Lag<sup>BN 201</sup>). <p> [<font class="hebrew2">קֵהָיוֺן</font>] <font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>noun [masculine]</b></font> <font size="+1"><b>bluntness</b></font> (Lag<sup>BN 201</sup>); — read perhaps construct <font class="hebrew2">קִהְיוֺן</font> <a href="/interlinear/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6</a> (for <font class="hebrew2">נִקְיוֺן</font>; see <font class="hebrew2">נִקָּיוֺן</font>). <p><font class="hebrew2">קהל</font> (√ of following; compare Sabean <font class="hebrew2">קהל</font>, <font class="hebrew2">קהלת</font> <em>assembly, congregation</em> DHM<sup>ZMG xxx (1876), 685</sup> Hom<sup>Chrest. 127</sup>; Saho <i><em>kahal</em></i>, <em>come together, assemble</em> Reinisch<sup>Saho Spr. 210</sup>; Syriac <img src="/bdbgif/bdb087404.gif"> <em>assemble</em>, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic <img src="/bdbgif/bdb087405.gif">, <font face="Gentium,Galatia SIL,SBL Greek,GFS Porson,Times New Roman">λαός</font>; Late Hebrew Hiph`il = Biblical Hebrew; Lag<sup>BN 51</sup> compare Arabic <img src="/bdbgif/bdb087406.gif"> <em>rebuke</em>, and conjecture <font class="hebrew2">קָהָל</font> = 'Rügegericht'). <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft2.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>cleanness, innocence <p>Or niqqayon {nik-kaw-yone'}; from <a href="/hebrew/5352.htm">naqah</a>; clearness (literally or figuratively) -- cleanness, innocency. <p>see HEBREW <a href="/hebrew/5352.htm">naqah</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן בנקיון וּבְנִקְיֹ֥ן ובנקין נִקְי֤וֹן נִקָּיֹֽן׃ נקיון נקין׃ bə·niq·qā·yō·wn benikkaYon bəniqqāyōwn nikkaYon nikYon niq·qā·yōn niq·yō·wn niqqāyōn niqyōwn ū·ḇə·niq·yōn ūḇəniqyōn uvenikYon<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/genesis/20-5.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Genesis 20:5</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/genesis/20.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3">בְּתָם־ לְבָבִ֛י <b> וּבְנִקְיֹ֥ן </b> כַּפַּ֖י עָשִׂ֥יתִי</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/genesis/20.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> of my heart <span class="itali">and the innocence</span> of my hands<br><a href="/kjvs/genesis/20.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> of my heart <span class="itali">and innocency</span> of my hands<br><a href="/interlinear/genesis/20-5.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> the integrity of my heart <span class="itali">and the innocence</span> of my hands have done<p><b><a href="/text/psalms/26-6.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Psalm 26:6</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/psalms/26.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3"> אֶרְחַ֣ץ <b> בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן </b> כַּפָּ֑י וַאֲסֹבְבָ֖ה</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/psalms/26.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> my hands <span class="itali">in innocence,</span> And I will go about<br><a href="/kjvs/psalms/26.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> mine hands <span class="itali">in innocency:</span> so will I compass<br><a href="/interlinear/psalms/26-6.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> shall wash <span class="itali">innocence</span> my hands will go<p><b><a href="/text/psalms/73-13.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Psalm 73:13</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/psalms/73.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3">לְבָבִ֑י וָאֶרְחַ֖ץ <b> בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן </b> כַּפָּֽי׃ </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/psalms/73.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> And washed my hands <span class="itali">in innocence;</span><br><a href="/kjvs/psalms/73.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> and washed my hands <span class="itali">in innocency.</span><br><a href="/interlinear/psalms/73-13.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> my heart And washed <span class="itali">innocence</span> my hands<p><b><a href="/text/hosea/8-5.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Hosea 8:5</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/hosea/8.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3">לֹ֥א יוּכְל֖וּ <b> נִקָּיֹֽן׃ </b> </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/hosea/8.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> will they be incapable <span class="itali">of innocence?</span><br><a href="/kjvs/hosea/8.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> they attain <span class="itali">to innocency?</span><br><a href="/interlinear/hosea/8-5.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> ere attain <span class="itali">cleanness</span><p><b><a href="/text/amos/4-6.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Amos 4:6</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/amos/4.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3">נָתַ֨תִּי לָכֶ֜ם <b> נִקְי֤וֹן </b> שִׁנַּ֙יִם֙ בְּכָל־</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/amos/4.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> you also <span class="itali">cleanness</span> of teeth<br><a href="/kjvs/amos/4.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> And I also have given <span class="itali">you cleanness</span> of teeth<br><a href="/interlinear/amos/4-6.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> I gave <span class="itali">cleanness</span> of teeth all<p><i><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5356.htm">5 Occurrences</a></i><br /><br /><b><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5356.htm">Strong's Hebrew 5356<br>5 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/hebrew/benikkayon_5356.htm">bə·niq·qā·yō·wn — 2 Occ.</a><br><a href="/hebrew/nikkayon_5356.htm">niq·qā·yōn — 1 Occ.</a><br><a href="/hebrew/nikyon_5356.htm">niq·yō·wn — 1 Occ.</a><br><a href="/hebrew/uvenikyon_5356.htm">ū·ḇə·niq·yōn — 1 Occ.</a><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div 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