ἄθωος
áthōos · G121 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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guiltless, innocent
Pertaining to not being guilty of wrongdoing
ExamplesMatthew 27:4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You shall see to it yourself!”
Matthew 27:24 Now when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this Man’s blood; you yourselves shall see.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀναίτιος anaítios · G338 · guiltless, innocent
- ἀναίτιος (“innocent”) and the target term ἄθῳος are essentially interchangeable expressions of legal or moral innocence, both denoting freedom from guilt or wrongdoing within the same narrow semantic field.
In the other Testament 2 words
- נָקִי nâqîy · H5355 · innocent, free from obligation, not liable
- Hebrew נָקִי and Greek ἄθῳος both denote innocence or freedom from guilt. נָקִי covers a broader range, including ritual cleanness and exemption from obligation, while ἄθῳος is narrower, focused specifically on the forensic sense of “not guilty.” The Septuagint regularly renders the legal-innocence portion of נָקִי's range with ἄθῳος.
- נִקָּיוֹן niqqâyôwn · H5356 · famine, hunger, innocence
- Hebrew נִקָּיוֹן emphasizes the state of moral or ritual purity/cleanness as an abstract quality, while Greek ἄθωος focuses specifically on legal innocence or absence of guilt in judicial contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Guiltless, innocent88.316
- This adjective denotes freedom from guilt, as in Matthew 27:24's account of Pilate washing his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this Man's blood; you yourselves shall see."
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (R G Tr), more correctly ἀθῷος (L WH and T (but not in his Sept.. There is want of…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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