Hebrew adjective · H5355
נָקִי
naqinaw-kee'
innocent; innocent
43 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâqîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5355is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 27spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5355
innocent
The King James renders it: blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless, innocent, quit.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
naqi is rendered "innocent; innocent". It stands 43 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Six of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "innocent".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:41And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
- The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.
The first use
And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
Genesis 24:41נָקִ֖י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: innocent, and innocent.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| innocentStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 24:41And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you… |
| innocentStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- innocent25
- free6
- the innocent4
- and innocent2
- a innocent of1
- an exempt1
- an innocent1
- and an innocent1
- for an innocent1
- free from guilt1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָקִיק | naqiq | cleft | Uses3 |
The words it stands beside
All 43, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
27 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נָקִ֔י6
- נָקִ֑י5
- הַנָּקִי֙2
- וְ֝נָקִ֗י2
- נָקִ֗י2
- נָקִ֣י2
- נָקִֽי׃2
- נְקִיִּ֣ם2
- נְקִיִּֽם׃2
- הַנָּקִ֛י1
- הַנָּקִ֖י1
- וְנָקִ֤י1
and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular26HAamsa
- adjective · masculine plural8HAampa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular4HTd/Aamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular3HC/Aamsa
- adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HAamsc
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
Genesis
two uses
And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
- נָקִ֖יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: free
“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”
- נְקִיִּֽם׃nekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: innocent
Exodus
two uses
If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.
- נָקִֽי׃nakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: free from guilt
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
- וְנָקִ֤יvenakiconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and an innocent
Numbers
one use
then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.
- נְקִיִּ֛יםnekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
Deuteronomy
six uses
Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
- נָקִ֔יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
- הַנָּקִ֛יhanakithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the innocent
Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.
- נָקִ֔יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
- הַנָּקִ֖יhanakithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the innocent
If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
- נָקִ֞יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: free
‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- נָקִ֑יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Joshua
three uses
The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear
- נְקִיִּ֣םnekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
- נְקִיִּ֑םnekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
And if you report our mission, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”
- נְקִיִּ֔םnekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: free
1 Samuel
one use
He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”
- נָקִ֔יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
2 Samuel
two uses
Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
- נָקִ֨יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
- נָקִֽי׃ סnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
1 Kings
one use
Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.
- נָקִ֔יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: an exempt
2 Kings
three uses
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
- נָקִ֜יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
- הַנָּקִי֙hanakithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the innocent
- נָקִ֑יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Job
six uses
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- נָקִ֣יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
- נְקִיִּ֣םnekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: innocent
The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
- וְ֝נָקִ֗יvenakiconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and innocent
The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:
- וְ֝נָקִ֗יvenakiconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and innocent
He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”
- נָקִ֑יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: an innocent
what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
- נָקִ֥יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Psalms
five uses
He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- נָקִ֑יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- נָקִ֗יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
- נְקִ֥יnekiadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a innocent of
They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
- נָקִ֣יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
- נָקִ֡יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Proverbs
two uses
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
- לְנָקִ֣יlenakipreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for an innocent
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
- נָקִֽי׃nakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Isaiah
one use
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
- נָקִ֑יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Jeremiah
six uses
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
- נְקִיִּ֑יםnekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: innocent
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
- נָקִ֔יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
- נְקִיִּֽם׃nekiyimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: innocent
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- נָקִ֔יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- הַנָּקִי֙hanakithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the innocent
But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”
- נָקִ֗יnakiadjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Joel
one use
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- נָקִ֖יאnaki'adjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Jonah
one use
So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
- נָקִ֑יאnaki'adjective · masculine singulartagged: innocent
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.