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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Innocency
Thompson Chain Reference
• Innocent Blood
• Innocence-Guilt
• Innocence
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Innocents, the
• Holy Innocents' Day
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Innocence
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Innocents, Slaughter of the
• Innocence, Innocency
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Innocents
• Innocence
King James Dictionary
• Innocent
• Innocency
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Innocent
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Innocents, Holy
• Innocent Xiii, Pope
• Innocent Xii, Pope
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Innocent
Webster Dictionary
• Innocently
• Innocent
• Innocency
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Innocent IV
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Innocence; Innocency; Innocent
• Innocents, Massacre of the
• Massacre of the Innocents
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Deseriz (or Dericius), Joseph Innocent
• Holy Innocents
• Innocent
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Innocent
• Innocent III.
• Innocent XI.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Holy Innocents
• Pope Bl. Innocent V
• Pope Innocent I
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Innocent III. (Lothario Conti)
• Innocent XI. (Benedetto Odescalchi)
Lexicons
• ܙܰܟ݁ܳܝܳܐ
• ܚܰܣܝܳܐ
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Innocence
• ἁγνός
• ἀθῷος
• ἄκακος
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• בַּר
• זָכוּ
• חִנָּם
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primarily denotes "unpunished" (a, negative, thoe, "a penalty"); then, "innocent," Matthew 27:4 , "innocent blood," i.e., the blood of an "innocent" person, the word "blood" being used both by synecdoche (a part standing for the whole), and by metonymy (one thing standing for another), i.e., for death by execution (some mss. have dikaion, "righteous"); Matthew 27:24 , where Pilate speaks of himself as "innocent."

lit., "not bad" (a, negative, kakos, "bad"), denotes "guileless, innocent," Romans 16:18 , RV, "innocent" (AV, "simple"); "harmless" in Hebrews 7:26 . See HARMLESS.