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Lexicon :: Strong's G121 - athōos

Aa
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].
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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 oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:19 - if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:7 - Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - and the land is subdued before Jehovah; then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless towards Jehovah, and towards Israel; and this land shall be unto you for a possession before Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5 - When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:25 - Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:17 - And the men said unto her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5 - for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt 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 - Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - And the woman of Tekoa said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; 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 also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16 - Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Jehovah would not pardon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:28 -
I am afraid of all my sorrows,
I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14 -
If I sin, then thou markest me,
And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 -
The tents of robbers prosper,
And they that provoke God are secure;
Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30 -
He will deliver even him that is not innocent:
Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:8 -
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;
In the secret places doth he murder the innocent;
His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:5 -
He that putteth not out his money to interest,
Nor taketh reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:25 -
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 -
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood,
And hath not sworn deceitfully.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:6 -
I will wash my hands in innocency:
So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 -
Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart,
And washed my hands in innocency;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:21 -
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
And condemn the innocent blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:38

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:38 -
And shed innocent blood,
Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:34 - Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35 - Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4 - Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:17 - But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:15 - Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
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