Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
KJV Usage: acquit X at all, X altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold) innocent, X by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, X utterly, X wholly
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נָקָה (na.qah) — to clear. 1) to be empty, be clear, be pure, be free, be innocent, be desolate, be cut off 1a) (Qal) to be empty, be clean, be pure 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cleaned out, be purged out 1b2) to be clean, be free from guilt, be innocent 1b3) to be free, be exempt from punishment 1b4) to be free, be exempt from obligation 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to hold innocent, acquit 1c2) to leave unpunished
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מְנַקִּית · נָקִי · נִקָּיֹון
Non-Contain | verb nif
to be emptied, to be cleaned out literally: to be cleaned out; hence: = causative action by which a city is deprived of its inhabitants
Non-Exist | verb nif
to be removed, to be banished literally: to be cleaned out; hence: = causative action by which people are forcefully removed from their community
Innocent | verb qal, verb pi, verb nif | ≈ תמם
to be free, to be innocent, to go unpunished = state or process in which humans are not held responsible for actions committed in the past or for future commitments
GEN 24:8 · GEN 24:41 · EXO 21:19 · NUM 5:19 · NUM 5:28 · NUM 5:31 · JDG 15:3 · 1SA 26:9 · PSA 19:14 · PRO 6:29 · PRO 11:21 · PRO 16:5 · PRO 17:5 · PRO 19:5 · PRO 19:9 · PRO 28:20 · JER 2:35 · JER 25:29 · JER 25:29 · JER 25:29 · JER 49:12 · JER 49:12 · JER 49:12 · ZEC 5:3 · ZEC 5:3
Innocent | verb pi
to clear the guilty, to hold not guilty, to let one go unpunished = action by which humans or deities pronounce or consider a person innocent or cleared of wrongdoing and freed from punishment
EXO 20:7 · EXO 34:7 · EXO 34:7 · NUM 14:18 · NUM 14:18 · DEU 5:11 · 1KI 2:9 · JOB 9:28 · JOB 10:14 · PSA 19:13 · JER 30:11 · JER 30:11 · JER 46:28 · JER 46:28 · JOL 4:21 · JOL 4:21 · NAM 1:3 · NAM 1:3
1 ZEC 5:3 RSV NRSV "be cut off" NIV NJB "be banished" REB "be swept away" ESV "be cleaned out" = [1b] | NJPS "has gone unpunished" = [1c] 2 JOL 4:21 NIV "I will pardon" NJPS "treat as innocent" | LXX ἐκδικήσω RSV NRSV ESV "I will avenge" REB "I shall avenge" CEV "I will punish" = נקם
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[נָקָה] vb. be empty(?), clean Qal Inf. Abs.
Niph. be cleaned out
be clean, free from guilt, innocent
be free, exempt from punishment
free, exempt from obligation
Pi. hold innocent, acquit
leave unpunished
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