Lexical Summary niqqayon: innocency Original Word: נִקָּיוֹןTransliteration: niqqayon Phonetic Spelling: (nik-kaw-yone') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: innocency Meaning: clearness Strong's Concordance cleanness, innocence Or niqqayon {nik-kaw-yone'}; from naqah; clearness (literally or figuratively) -- cleanness, innocency. see HEBREW naqah Brown-Driver-Briggs H5356. niqqayon נִקָּיוֺן noun [masculine] innocency; — ׳נ Psalm 26:6; 73:13; נִקָּיֹן Hosea 8:5; construct נִקְּיוֺן Amos 4:6; נִקְיֹן Genesis 20:5; — 1 freedom from guilt, innocency: ׳נ כַּמַּי Genesis 20:5 (RJE); בנ ׳אֶרְחַץ דַּמָּ֑י Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocency = 73:13. 2 freedom from punishment Hosea 8:5. 3 in physical sense, שִׁנַּיִם נִקְיוֺם cleanness of teeth (without food) Amos 4:6 (but read perhaps after קַהֲיוֺן ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 bluntness, so LagBN 201). [קֵהָיוֺן] noun [masculine] bluntness (LagBN 201); — read perhaps construct קִהְיוֺן Amos 4:6 (for נִקְיוֺן; see נִקָּיוֺן). קהל (√ of following; compare Sabean קהלת קהל, assembly, congregation DHMZMG xxx (1876), 685 HomChrest. 127; Saho kahal, come together, assemble ReinischSaho Spr. 210; Syriac assemble, Christian-Palestinian Aramaic , λαός; Late Hebrew Hiph`il = Biblical Hebrew; LagBN 51 compare Arabic rebuke, and conjecture קָהָל = 'Rügegericht'). |