Word

זָכָה

zâkâh · H2135 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

to be just

State in which someone is considered as upright and innocent in character and behavior

Examples
Job 15:14 “What is man, that he would be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous?
Job 25:4 “How then can mankind be righteous with God? Or how can anyone who is born of woman be pure?
Psalm 51:4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge.
to make clean

Action or process by which someone makes him/herself upright and innocent in character and behavior

Examples
Isaiah 1:16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil,
to keep clean, to keep pure

Process by which someone maintains him/herself upright and innocent in character and behavior

Examples
Psalm 73:13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence;
Psalm 119:9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word.
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin”?
to consider just

State in which a deity considers a person to be upright and innocent in character and behavior

Examples
Micah 6:11 “Can I justify dishonest balances, And a bag of fraudulent weights?

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

8 occurrences in 6 groups

Not stated: I 3
יָלַדto bear 1
נַעַרyoung man, servant, boy 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

לֵבheart, mind 1
לֵבָבheart, mind 1
אֹרַחpath, way 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with+ מָהwhat?, why? 1
בin/on/with+ שָׁפַטto judge, to govern 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אָמַרto say 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 4 words

טָהֵר ṭâhêr · H2891 · to become clean, to purify, to cleanse: Both mean "to be or make clean, to cleanse," overlapping in both ritual and moral purity contexts as two distinct Hebrew roots expressing closely related senses of purification.
נָקָה nâqâh · H5352 · to be emptied, to be cleaned out, to be removed: Both denote states of cleanness, innocence, or acquittal, overlapping in describing legal or moral clearness.
זָכַךְ zâkak · H2141 · to be clean, to be pure, pure: Both denote states or acts of cleanness or purity; though from distinct roots, they genuinely overlap in describing ritual or moral purity.
צָרַף tsâraph · H6884 · to test, to purge away: זָכָה (zâkâh, H2135) denotes general cleansing or declaring pure (moral/legal purity); צָרַף (tsâraph, H6884) emphasizes purification through refining/testing process (metallurgical or metaphorical testing that purges impurities).

Semantic domains 2 entries

Innocent002003003015: זָכָה denotes being pure or clean in a moral sense, as Job asks how one born of woman could ever be counted righteous or pure.
Think002004002013: The verb also carries the sense of judging or accounting someone pure, a mental reckoning of moral standing.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זָכָהzâkâh · H2135זָכוּ zâkûw · H2136 · innocency · 1×זְכוּכִית zᵉkûwkîyth · H2137 · glass · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2135. zakah [זָכָה] verb be clear, clean, pure, always in moral sense (Assyrian zakû…

H2135. zakah
[זָכָה] verb be clear, clean, pure, always in moral sense (Assyrian zakû ZimBP; Aramaic דְּכָא, , ; compare Arabic be bright (of a fire), pungent (of an odour); be acute, quick of mind) —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular יִזְכֶּה Job 15:14; Job 25:4; Job 25:2masculine singular תִּזְכֶּה Psa 51:6; Psa 51:1singular interrogative הַאֶזְכֶּה Mic 6:11; —
1 be clean, pure, of man, in the sight of God, Job 15:14; Job 25:4 (in both || יצדק; compare also זַכּוּ Job 15:15; Job 25:5).
2 be clear, be justified = be regarded as just, righteous, of God, Psa 51:6 (|| תצדק), Mic 6:11.
Pi`el Perfect1singular זִכִּיתִי Psa 73:13; Pro 20:9; Imperfect יְזַכֶּהֿ Psa 119:9: — make or keep clean, pure, object לְבָבִי Psa 73:13 (|| כַּמָּ֑י אֶרְחַץ), object לִבִּי Pro 20:9 (|| טָהַרְתִּי); object אֶתאָֿרְחוֺ Psa 119:9.
Hithpa`el Imperative masculine plural הִזַּכּוּ Isa 1:16 make yourselves clean (|| רַחֲצוּ); — on form compare Ges§ 54, 2, b, Rem. KöLgb. i, 345, 534 Sta§ 129 d.
זְכוֺכִית see below זכך. below

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Innocent7 occurrences Think1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0