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title: נָקִי — clean · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָקִי (5355), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 43 times: clean. BDB 1906: adj. clean, free from, exempt. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָקִי

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«נָקִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **clean** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 43 times · **Key:** 5355 · **BDB:** נָקִי

### Glosses

innocent (21); free (4); \[the\].innocent (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

clean [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5355/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. clean, free from, exempt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5355/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. clean, free from, exempt;—נ׳ Gn 24:41 + 31 times; cstr. נְקִי ψ 24:4; pl. נְקִיִּים Je 2:34; נְקִיִּם Gn 44:10 + 6 times;— free from guilt, clean, innocent, ‖ צַדִּיק: נָקִי וְצַדִּיק Ex 23:7 (E), נָקִי innocent person Jb 4:7; 17:8; 22:19, 30; 27:17 ψ 10:8; 15:5; Pr 1:11; נקיים Jb 9:23; דם נקי innocent blood, first used in D, Dt 19:10; 27:25; 1 S 19:5; 2 K 21:16; 24:4 ψ 94:21; 106:38; Pr 6:17; Is 59:7; Je 7:6; 22:3; 26:15; דם הנקי Dt 19:13 2 K 24:4 Je 22:17; הדם הנקי Dt 21:9; דם נקיים Je 19:4; נָקִי מִדְּמֵי 2 S 3:28 (+ מֵעִם י׳); נְקִי כַפַּיִם ψ 24:4; אביונים נקיים Je 2:34. free from punishment Ex 21:28 (E) 2 S 14:9. free, exempt from obligations Gn 44:10 (J); from service in war Nu 32:22 (P; + מִן pers., v. מִן 2 d), Dt 24:5 1 K 15:22 (cf. Arabic نَقِىَّ and WetzstZMG xxii (1868), 129); c. מן, from oaths Gn 24:41 (J) Jos 2:17, 19, 20 (JE).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָקִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5355/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 9:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.23/)

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אִם־שׁ֭וֹט יָמִ֣ית פִּתְאֹ֑ם לְמַסַּ֖ת נְקִיִּ֣ם יִלְעָֽג׃

*Word for word:* if a.scourge it.kills suddenly (to).\[the\] despair of.innocent.\[ones\] he.mocks

*JPS 1917:* If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.

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[Job 27:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.17/)

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יָ֭כִין וְצַדִּ֣יק יִלְבָּ֑שׁ וְ֝כֶ֗סֶף נָקִ֥י יַחֲלֹֽק׃

*Word for word:* he.will.prepare.\[it\] and a.righteous.\[person\] he.will.wear.\[it\] and.\[the\] silver \[the\].innocent he.will.divide.up

*JPS 1917:* He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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