42 occurrences

'Innocent' in the Bible

"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them.

So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

"Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don't let us die for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."

saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חנּם 
Chinnam 
Usage: 32

חף 
Chaph 
Usage: 1

נקה 
Naqah 
Usage: 44

נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

ἄθωος 
Athoos 
Usage: 2