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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - נָקָה

נָקָה

H5352

Transliteration: nâqâh

Pronunciation: naw-kaw'

Definition: acquit [idiom] at all


Original: נקה

Transliteration: nâqâh

Phonetic: naw-kaw'

BDB Definition:

  1. to be empty, be clear, be pure, be free, be innocent, be desolate, be cut off
    1. (Qal) to be empty, be clean, be pure
    2. (Niphal)
      1. to be cleaned out, be purged out
      2. to be clean, be free from guilt, be innocent
      3. to be free, be exempt from punishment
      4. to be free, be exempt from obligation
    3. (Piel)
      1. to hold innocent, acquit
      2. to leave unpunished

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 1412

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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