Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5356 - נִקָּיוֹן niqqayon (innocency)

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

cleanness, innocence

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

see HEBREW naqah

Englishman's Concordance

1) innocency
1a) freedom from guilt, innocency
1b) freedom from punishment
1c) cleanness of teeth (physical sense)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5352
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1412c

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נִקָּיוֺןnoun [masculine]innocency; — ׳נPsalm 26:6; Psalm 73:13; נִקָּיֹןHosea 8:5; construct נִקְּיוֺןAmos 4:6; נִקְיֹןGenesis 20:5; —

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

2freedom from punishmentHosea 8:5.

3in physical sense, נִקְיוֺם שִׁנַּיִםcleanness of teeth (without food) Amos 4:6 (but read perhaps after ᵐ5ᵑ6ᵑ7קַהֲיוֺןbluntness, so Lag^{BN 201}).

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

קהל (√ of following; compare Sabean קהל, קהלתassembly, 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').

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5356. נִקָּיוֹן (niqqayon or niqqayon) — 5 Occurrences

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

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