naki · innocent, free

What it means

naki (נָקִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “innocent, free”.

Of guilt; also released from an obligation or an oath.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Without guilt: blood of one who did no wrong.
2. To be exempt from a task or a duty.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• innocent ×35
• free ×5
• exempt ×1
• innocents ×1
• shall be clear ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×3
• Job×6
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×6
• Joel×1
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 24:41

  Then you will be free from my imprecation, when you come to my family; and if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my imprecation.’

• Genesis 44:10

  He said, “Now let it be also according to your words: the one with whom it is found will be my slave, and you will be innocent.”

• Exodus 21:28

  When an ox gores a man or a woman and the person dies, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be clear.

• Exodus 23:7

  Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not declare righteous the wicked.

• Numbers 32:22

  and the land is subdued before YHWH, then afterward you shall return and be innocent before YHWH and before Israel; and this land shall be yours as a possession before YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 19:10

  so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and bloodguilt be on you.

• Deuteronomy 19:13

  Your eye shall not pity him, and you shall remove the innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

• Deuteronomy 21:8

  Make expiation for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, YHWH, and do not put innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.” And the blood shall be expiated for them.

• Deuteronomy 21:9

  So you shall remove the innocent blood from among you, for you shall do what is right in the eyes of YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 24:5

  When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army, and nothing at all shall be laid on him. He shall be free for his house one year and shall make his wife whom he has taken glad.

• Deuteronomy 27:25

  ‘Cursed be he who takes a bribe to strike down a person, innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Joshua 2:17

  The men said to her, “We will be free from this oath of yours that you have made us swear.

• Joshua 2:19

  And it shall be that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house outside, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be free; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is on him.

• Joshua 2:20

  But if you tell this matter of ours, then we will be free from your oath that you have made us swear.”

• 1 Samuel 19:5

  He put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and YHWH worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting to death David without cause?”

• 2 Samuel 3:28

  Afterward David heard of it and said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before YHWH forever of the blood of Abner son of Ner.

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The Tekoite woman said to the king, “On me, my lord the king, be the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne be innocent.”

• 1 Kings 15:22

  Then King Asa summoned all Judah, none exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building; and King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.

• 2 Kings 21:16

  Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, doing what was evil in the eyes of YHWH.

• 2 Kings 24:4

  and also for the innocent blood that he had shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and YHWH was not willing to forgive.

• Job 4:7

  Remember, please: who, being innocent, perished? And where were the upright wiped out?

• Job 9:23

  If a scourge kills suddenly, he mocks at the trial of the innocent.

• Job 17:8

  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent rouses himself against the godless.

• Job 22:19

  The righteous see it and rejoice, and the innocent mocks them:

• Job 22:30

  He will rescue one who is not innocent, and he will be rescued by the cleanness of your palms.”

• Job 27:17

  he may prepare them, but the righteous will wear them, and the innocent will divide the silver.

• Psalms 10:8

  He sits in the ambush of the villages; in the hiding places he kills the innocent; his eyes watch stealthily for the helpless.

• Psalms 15:5

  his silver he does not give at interest, and a bribe against the innocent he does not take. He who does these things will not be moved ever.

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has innocent hands and is clean of heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn with deceit.

• Psalms 94:21

  They band together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood they declare guilty.

• Psalms 106:38

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

• Proverbs 1:11

  If they say, “Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;

• Proverbs 6:17

  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

• Isaiah 59:7

  Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; devastation and shattering are on their highways.

• Jeremiah 2:34

  Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent needy; not breaking in did I find them, but on all these.

• Jeremiah 7:6

  if you do not oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and do not walk after other gods to your own harm,

• Jeremiah 19:4

  because they have forsaken me and made this place foreign and burned incense in it to other gods whom they did not know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Thus says YHWH: Do justice and righteousness, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor; and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow do not wrong, do not treat with violence; and innocent blood do not shed in this place.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But your eyes and your heart are on nothing except your unjust gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and extortion, to do them.

• Jeremiah 26:15

  Only know for certain that if you put me to death, for innocent blood you are bringing upon yourselves and on this city and on its inhabitants; for in truth YHWH has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.”

And 3 more times.