זָכוּ
zâkûw · H2136 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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just, innocent, blameless
State in which someone is considered as upright and innocent in character and behavior
ExamplesDaniel 6:22 “My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not harmed me, since I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁכַחfind 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 3 words
- בֹּר bôr · H1252 · cleanness, purity, innocence
- Both words denote abstract states of moral or ritual purity and could substitute in contexts of innocence or cleanness.
- נִקָּיוֹן niqqâyôwn · H5356 · famine, hunger, innocence
- Both words denote innocence and cleanness; they are distinct Hebrew words with overlapping sense of innocence.
- יִשְׁרָה yishrâh · H3483 · uprightness, honesty, sincereness
- Both lexemes carry glosses (“innocency” / “uprightness”) suggesting overlapping moral or ethical sense and potential same-language synonymy.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Innocent002003003015
- Daniel 6:22 has Daniel tell the king, “my God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, since I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime.”
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2136. zaku זָכוּ (K§ 61, 4) noun feminine purity, innocence (compare Biblical Hebrew…
זָכוּ (K§ 61, 4) noun feminine purity, innocence (compare Biblical Hebrew זָכָה, also דְּכָא ᵑ7, Syriac be clean (Arabic is be bright (of fire), acute (of mind), etc.), or Arabic . be pure, good, זְכָא ᵑ7, Syriac be pure, innocent; are these forms with ז secondary? or ancient || ?); — absolute ׳ז Dan 6:13 innocence in God's sight.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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
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
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