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Lexicon :: Strong's G121 - athōos

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ἀθῷος
Transliteration
athōos (Key)
Pronunciation
ath'-o-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄλφα (G1) (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of τίθημι (G5087) (meaning a penalty)
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Strong’s Definitions

†ἄθωος áthōos, ath'-o-os; from G1 (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of G5087 (meaning a penalty); not guilty:—innocent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G121 in the following manner: innocent (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G121 in the following manner: innocent (2x).

  1. not guilty, innocent, unpunished

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ἄθωος áthōos, ath'-o-os; from G1 (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of G5087 (meaning a penalty); not guilty:—innocent.
STRONGS G121:
ἀθῶος [R G Tr], more correctly ἀθῷος (L WH and T [but not in his Sept. There is want of agreement among both the ancient grammer and modern scholars; cf. Stephanus' Thesaurus i. col. 875 c.; Lob. Path. Element. i. 440f (cf. ii. 377); see Ι, ι]), -ον, (θωή [i. e., θωϊή, cf. Etym. Magn., p. 26, 24] punishment), [from Plato down], unpunished, innocent: αἷμα ἀθῷον, Matthew 27:4 [Tr marginal reading WH text δίκαιον], (Deuteronomy 27:25; 1 Samuel 19:5, etc.; 1 Macc. 1:37; 2 Macc. 1:8); ἀπό τινος, after the Hebrew מִן נָקִי ([Numbers 32:22; cf. Genesis 24:41; 2 Samuel 3:28; Winers Grammar, 197 (185); Buttmann, 158 (138)]), 'innocent (and therefore far) from,' innocent of, Matthew 27:24 (the guilt of the murder of this innocent man cannot be laid upon me); ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 2 [cf. Numbers 5:31). The Greeks say ἀθῷός τινος [both in the sense of free from and unpunished for].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
24:41
Numbers
5:31; 32:22
Deuteronomy
27:25
1 Samuel
19:5
2 Samuel
3:28
Matthew
27:4; 27:24

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G121 matches the Greek ἀθῷος (athōos),
which occurs 47 times in 43 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - Then shalt thou be clear from my curse, for whensoever thou shalt have come to my tribe, and they shall not give her to thee, then shalt thou be clear from my oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19 - if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that smote him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - And if a bull gore a man or woman and [fn]they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7 - Thou shalt abstain from every unjust thing: thou shalt not slay the innocent and just, and thou shalt not justify the wicked for gifts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall [fn]conceive seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - Then the man shall be clear from sin, and that woman shall bear her sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - and the land shall be subdued before the Lord, then afterwards ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and as regards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5 - And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be [fn]free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:25 - Cursed is he whosoever shall have taken a bribe to [fn]slay an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - And the men said to her, We are clear of this thy oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall go outside the door of thy house, his guilt shall be upon him, and we shall be quit of this thine oath; and we will be responsible for all that shall be found with thee in thy house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - But if any one should injure us, or betray these our matters, we shall be quit of this thine oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5 - And he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great deliverance; and all Israel saw, and rejoiced: why then dost thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 - And now, my lord, as the Lord lives, and thy soul lives, as the Lord has kept thee from coming against innocent blood, and [fn]from executing vengeance for thyself, now therefore let thine enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - then this shall not be an abomination and offence to my lord, to have shed innocent blood without cause, and for my lord to have avenged himself: and so may the Lord do good to my lord, and thou shalt remember thine handmaid to do her good.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - And David heard of it afterwards, and said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord even for ever of the blood of Abenner the son of Ner.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - And the woman of Thecoe said to the king, On me, my lord, O king, and on my father's house be the iniquity, and the king and his throne be guiltless.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:5 - Moreover thou knowest all that Joab the son of Saruia did to me, what he did to the two captains of the forces of Israel, to Abenner the son of Ner, and to Amessai the son of Jether, that he slew them, and [fn]shed the blood of war in peace, and put innocent blood on his girdle that was about his loins, and on his sandal that was on his foot.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16 - Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it [fn]from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not [fn]pardon it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Joachim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zechora, daughter of Nerias of Rama. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers did. (LXX 36:5a) In his days came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon into the land, and he served him three years, and then revolted from him. (36:5b) And the Lord sent against them the Chaldeans, and plundering parties of Syrians, and plundering parties of the Moabites, and of the children of Ammon, and of Samaria; but after this they departed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of his servants the prophets. (36:5c) Nevertheless the wrath of the Lord was upon Juda, so that they should be removed from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses in all that he did, (36:5d) and for the innocent blood which Joakim shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; yet the Lord would not utterly destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:28 - I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14 - And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 - even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30 - He shall deliver the innocent, and do thou save thyself by thy pure hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:8 - (LXX 9:29) He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are [fn]set against the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:5 - (LXX 14:5) He has not [fn]lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:25 - (LXX 17:26) With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - (LXX 23:4) He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully [fn]to his neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:6 - (LXX 25:6) I will wash my hands in [fn]innocency, and compass thine altar, O Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 - (LXX 72:13) And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:21 - (LXX 93:21) They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:38

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:38 - (LXX 105:38) and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan; and the land was [fn]defiled with blood,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:34 - and in thine hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35 - Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4 - Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:17 - Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:15 - (LXX 33:15) But know for a certainty, that if ye slay me, ye bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon them that dwell in it; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - (LXX 26:28) Fear not thou, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; for I am with thee: she that was without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up: for I will make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust thee forth; but I will not cause thee to fail: yet will I chastise thee in the way of judgment, and will not hold thee entirely guiltless.
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