ἀθῳόω
hold innocent, acquit
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀθῳόω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 15 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 15:3 ἀθῳόω And Sampson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.
- 1 Samuel 26:9 ἀθῳόω And David said to Abessa, Do not lay him low, for who shall lift up his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be guiltless?
- 1 Kings 2:9 ἀθῳόω But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
- 1 Kings 2:35 ἀθῳόω And the king appointed Banaeas son of Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem; and as for Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.
- Proverbs 6:29 ἀθῳόω So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.
- Proverbs 16:2 ἀθῳόω All the works of the humble man are manifest with God; but the ungodly shall perish in an evil day.
- Proverbs 17:5 ἀθῳόω He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and he that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.
- Jeremiah 15:15 ἀθῳόω O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for your sake, from those who set at nothing your words;
- Jeremiah 18:23 ἀθῳόω And you, Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before you: let their weakness come before you; deal with them in the time of your wrath.
- Jeremiah 26:28 ἀθῳόω Fear not you, my servant Jacob, says the Lord; for I am with you: she that was without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up: for I will make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust you forth; but I will not cause you to fail: yet will I chastise you in the way of judgment, and will not hold you entirely guiltless.
- Jeremiah 30:6 ἀθῳόω
- Jeremiah 30:6 ἀθῳόω
- Joel 4:21 ἀθῳόω
- Nahum 1:3 ἀθῳόω The Lord is longsuffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Nahum 1:3 ἀθῳόω The Lord is longsuffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
About this word
About this word
ἀθῳόω (athōóō), “hold innocent, acquit,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 15 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →