5356. niqqayon

Strong's Concordance

niqqayon: innocency

Original Word: נִקָּיוֹן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: niqqayon
Phonetic Spelling: (nik-kaw-yone')
Definition: innocency

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from naqah
Definition
innocency
NASB Translation
cleanness (1), innocence (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נִקָּיוֺן noun [masculine] innocency; — ׳נ Psalm 26:6; Psalm 73:13; נִקָּיֹן Hosea 8:5; construct נִקְּיוֺן Amos 4:6; נִקְיֹן Genesis 20:5; —

1 freedom from guilt, innocency: כַּמַּי ׳נ Genesis 20:5 (R^JE); דַּמָּ֑י ׳אֶרְחַץ בנ Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocency = Psalm 73:13.

2 freedom from punishment Hosea 8:5.

3 in physical sense, נִקְיוֺם שִׁנַּיִם cleanness of teeth (without food) Amos 4:6 (but read perhaps after ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ7 קַהֲיוֺן bluntness, so Lag^{BN 201}).

[קֵהָיוֺן] noun [masculine] bluntness (Lag^{BN 201}); — read perhaps construct קִהְיוֺן Amos 4:6 (for נִקְיוֺן; see נִקָּיוֺן).

קהל (√ of following; compare Sabean קהל, קהלת assembly, congregation DHM^{ZMG xxx (1876), 685} Hom^{Chrest. 127}; Saho kahal, come together, assemble Reinisch^{Saho Spr. 210}; Syriac assemble, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic , λαός; Late Hebrew Hiph`il = Biblical Hebrew; Lag^{BN 51} compare Arabic rebuke, and conjecture קָהָל = 'Rügegericht').

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cleanness, innocence

Or niqqayon {nik-kaw-yone'}; from naqah; clearness (literally or figuratively) -- cleanness, innocency.

see HEBREW naqah

Forms and Transliterations

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

Englishman's Concordance

Genesis 20:5
HEB: בְּתָם־ לְבָבִ֛י וּבְנִקְיֹ֥ן כַּפַּ֖י עָשִׂ֥יתִי
NAS: of my heart and the innocence of my hands
KJV: of my heart and innocency of my hands
INT: the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have done

Psalm 26:6
HEB: אֶרְחַ֣ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּ֑י וַאֲסֹבְבָ֖ה
NAS: my hands in innocence, And I will go about
KJV: mine hands in innocency: so will I compass
INT: shall wash innocence my hands will go

Psalm 73:13
HEB: לְבָבִ֑י וָאֶרְחַ֖ץ בְּנִקָּי֣וֹן כַּפָּֽי׃
NAS: And washed my hands in innocence;
KJV: and washed my hands in innocency.
INT: my heart And washed innocence my hands

Hosea 8:5
HEB: לֹ֥א יוּכְל֖וּ נִקָּיֹֽן׃
NAS: will they be incapable of innocence?
KJV: they attain to innocency?
INT: ere attain cleanness

Amos 4:6
HEB: נָתַ֨תִּי לָכֶ֜ם נִקְי֤וֹן שִׁנַּ֙יִם֙ בְּכָל־
NAS: you also cleanness of teeth
KJV: And I also have given you cleanness of teeth
INT: I gave cleanness of teeth all

5 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5356
5 Occurrences

bə·niq·qā·yō·wn — 2 Occ.
niq·qā·yōn — 1 Occ.
niq·yō·wn — 1 Occ.
ū·ḇə·niq·yōn — 1 Occ.