Original Word: ἀθῷος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: athóos
Pronunciation: a-THO-os
Phonetic Spelling: (ath'-o-os)
KJV: innocent
NASB: innocent
Word Origin: [from G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of G5087 (τίθημι - laid) meaning "a penalty"]

1. not guilty

innocent.

From a (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of tithemi (meaning a penalty); not guilty -- innocent.

see GREEK a

see GREEK tithemi

Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and thóé (a penalty)
Definition
unpunished
NASB Translation
innocent (2).

STRONGS NT 121: ἀθῶος

ἀθῶος (R G Tr), more correctly ἀθῷος (L WH and T (but not in his Sept.. There is want of agreement among both the ancient gramm, and modern scholars; cf. Stephanus' Thesaurus i. col. 875 c.; Lob. Path. Element. i. 440f (cf. ii. 377); see Iota)), , (θωή (i. e., θωϊή, cf. Etym. Magn., p. 26, 24) punishment) (from Plato down), unpunished, innocent: αἷμα ἀθῷον, Matthew 27:4 (Tr marginal reading WH text δίκαιον, (Deuteronomy 27:25; 1 Samuel 19:5, etc.; 1 Macc. 1:37; 2 Macc. 1:8); ἀπό τινος, after the Hebrew מִן נָקִי ((Numbers 32:22; cf. Genesis 24:41; 2 Samuel 3:28; Winers Grammar, 197 (185); Buttmann, 158 (138))), 'innocent (and therefore far) from,' innocent of Matthew 27:24 (the guilt of the murder of this innocent man cannot be laid upon me); ἀπό τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 2 [ET] (cf. Numbers 5:31). The Greeks say ἀθῷός τίνος (both in the sense of free from and unpunished for).

Forms and Transliterations

αθώα αθώοι αθώοις αθώον αθώόν Αθωος αθώος αθώός Ἀθῷός αθώου αθωωθής αθωωθήσεται αθωωμένη αθώων αθωώσει αθωώσης αθώωσόν αθωώσω Athôiós Athō̂iós Athoos Athōos

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