Words the Bible translates as acquit
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- dikaioōδικαιόωto declare someone to be in the right: to hand down a favorable verdict, acquitting, clearing, or vindicating a person rather than making the person good
- naqahנָקָהto be clear in a legal sense: free, innocent, or unpunished, and (when someone declares it) to acquit or leave unpunished
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- to be emptied out or swept clean: stripped bare of inhabitants or contents
- tsadaqצָדֵקto put someone in the right: to declare, pronounce, or treat a person as righteous, to acquit and vindicate them
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- to be in the right: to stand righteous, just, or cleared, whether as a settled state of life or as a verdict won in a dispute
- zakhahזָכָהto be clear of guilt when the question is put, or to keep a heart or a life clear of it
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