Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5356
נִקָּיוֹן
niqqayonnik-kaw-yone'
innocence; bluntness
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: niqqâyôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5356is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5356
clearness (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: cleanness, innocency.
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
niqqayon is rendered "innocence; bluntness". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "innocence".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 20:5Didn’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.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
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.”
Genesis 20:5וּבְנִקְיֹ֥ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: innocence, and bluntness.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| innocenceStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 20:5Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother… |
| bluntnessStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in innocence2
- and in innocence of1
- cleanness of1
- innocence1
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.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן2
- וּבְנִקְיֹ֥ן1
- נִקְי֤וֹן1
- נִקָּיֹֽן׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Genesis
one use
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.”
- וּבְנִקְיֹ֥ןuvenikyonconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and in innocence of
Psalms
two uses
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
- בְּנִקָּי֣וֹןbenikayonpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in innocence
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
- בְּנִקָּי֣וֹןbenikayonpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in innocence
Hosea
one use
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
- נִקָּיֹֽן׃nikayonnoun · masculine singulartagged: innocence
Amos
one use
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- נִקְי֤וֹןnikyonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cleanness of
The letters
Gematria 216· 866 mispar gadol
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.