Innocency
Bible Usage:
- innocency used 5 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 20:5
- Last Reference: Hosea 8:5
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
IN'NOCENCE
IN'NOCENCY, noun [Latin innocentia; in and noceo, to hurt.]
1. Properly, freedom from any quality that can injure; innoxiousness; harmlessness; as the innocence of a medicine which can do no harm. In this sense, the noun is not obsolete, though less used than the adjective.
2. In a moral sense, freedom from crime, sin or guilt; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity.
Enjoyment left nothing to ask--innocence left nothing to fear.
3. Freedom from guilt or evil intentions; simplicity of heart; as the innocence of a child.
4. Freedom from the guilt of a particular sin or crime. This is the sense in which the word is most generally used, for perfect innocence cannot be predicated of man. A man charged with theft or murder may prove his innocence
5. The state of being lawfully conveyed to a belligerent, or of not being contraband; as the innocence of a cargo, or of any merchandize.
Signified by washing the hands
Deuteronomy 21:6; Psalms 26:6; Matthew 27:24
Found in Daniel
Daniel 6:22
Found in Jeremiah
Jeremiah 2:35
Professed by Pilate
Matthew 27:24
Contrasted with guilt
Genesis 2:25; Genesis 3:7-11