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Strong's G121 ἄθωος (athoos)

Athoos means “innocent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H121 — adam in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G121
Language Greek
Linked Usages 50
Books 19

Strong's G121 Quick Answer

Strong's G121 ἄθωος (athoos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. athoos (ath'-o-os) adj. 1. not guilty [from G1 (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of G5087 meaning "a penalty"] It has 50 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include innocent. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
athoos (ath'-o-os) adj. 1. not guilty [from G1 (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of G5087 meaning "a penalty"]
Usage
50 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
innocent

Meaning and Definition

athoos (ath'-o-os) adj. 1. not guilty [from G1 (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of G5087 meaning "a penalty"] KJV: innocent Root(s): G1, G5087

Original Word
ἄθωος
Transliteration
athoos
Derivation
Root: τίθημι R1: 1 R2: 5087
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G121. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

innocent

Usage: ἀθῷος (Rec. wrongly, -ῶος; LS, see word; Mayser, 131), -ον (θωή, a penalty), [in LXX chiefly for נקה ni., pi., נָקִי ;] __1. unpunished (MM, VGT, see word). __2. innocent: Mat.27:4 (WH, R, mg., δίκαιον) 27:24. (AS)

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How Strong's G121 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render athoos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

innocent Matthew 27:4

How Strong's G121 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 42 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G121 (ἄθωος) appears 52 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G121 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G121 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 27:4 KJV

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

Matthew 27:24 KJV

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

Strong's G121 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

42 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 24:41 Septuagint / Brenton

Then shalt thou be clear from my curse, for whensoever thou shalt have come to my tribe, and they shall not give her to thee, then shalt thou be clear from my oath.

Exodus 21:19 Septuagint / Brenton

if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that smote him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.

Exodus 21:28 Septuagint / Brenton

And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.

Strong's G121 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 1:37 Septuagint / Brenton

Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:

2 Maccabees 1:8 Septuagint / Brenton

and burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.

2 Maccabees 7:19 Septuagint / Brenton

But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shall escape unpunished.

Usage Excerpts

First 50 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G121.

Genesis 24:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then shalt thou be clear from my curse, for whensoever thou shalt have come to my tribe, and they shall not give her to thee, then shalt thou be clear from my oath.
Exodus 21:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that smote him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.
Exodus 21:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
Exodus 23:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt abstain from every unjust thing: thou shalt not slay the innocent and just, and thou shalt not justify the wicked for gifts.
Numbers 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.
Numbers 5:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.
Numbers 5:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the man shall be clear from sin, and that woman shall bear her sin.
Numbers 32:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the land shall be subdued before the Lord, then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and as regards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the Lord.
Deuteronomy 24:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall anything be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deuteronomy 27:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he whosoever shall have taken a bribe to slay an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Joshua 2:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men said to her, We are clear of this thy oath.
Joshua 2:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall go outside the door of thy house, his guilt shall be upon him, and we shall be quit of this thine oath; and we will be responsible for all that shall be found with thee in thy house.
Joshua 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if anyone should injure us, or betray these our matters, we shall be quit of this thine oath.
1 Kingdoms 19:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great deliverance; and all Israel saw, and rejoiced: why then dost thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1 Kingdoms 25:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, my lord, as the Lord lives, and thy soul lives, as the Lord has kept thee from coming against innocent blood, and from executing vengeance for thyself, now therefore let thine enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal.
1 Kingdoms 25:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then this shall not be an abomination and offense to my lord, to have shed innocent blood without cause, and for my lord to have avenged himself: and so may the Lord do good to my lord, and thou shalt remember thy handmaid to do her good.
2 Kingdoms 3:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David heard of it afterward, and said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord even forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
2 Kingdoms 14:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, On me, my lord, O king, and on my father’s house be the iniquity, and the king and his throne be guiltless.
3 Kingdoms 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover thou knowest all that Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two captains of the forces of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, that he slew them, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put innocent blood on his girdle that was about his loins, and on his sandal that was on his foot.
4 Kingdoms 21:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Judah to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.
4 Kingdoms 24:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon it.
2 Chronicles 36:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
was Zechora, daughter of Nerias of Rumah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers did. then revolted from him.
Job 9:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I quake in all my limbs, For I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.
Job 10:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if I should sin, thou watchest me; And thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.
Job 12:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Even as many as provoke the Lord, As if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.
Job 22:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall deliver the innocent, And do thou save thyself by thy pure hands.
Psalms 9:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He lies in wait with rich men In secret places, in order to slay the innocent: His eyes are set against the poor.
Psalms 14:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has not lent his money on usury, And has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
Psalms 17:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With the holy thou wilt be holy; And with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.
Psalms 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, Nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.
Psalms 25:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will wash my hands in innocency, And compass thine altar, O Lord:
Psalms 72:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, And washed my hands in innocency.
Psalms 93:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood.
Psalms 105:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was defiled with blood,
Jeremiah 2:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and in thy hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.
Jeremiah 2:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jeremiah 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah 19:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because they forsook me, and profaned this place, and burned incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,
Jeremiah 22:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thy heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
Jeremiah 26:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fear not thou, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; for I am with thee: 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 thee forth; but I will not cause thee to fail: yet will I chastise thee in the way of judgment, and will not hold thee entirely guiltless.
Jeremiah 33:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But know for a certainty, that if ye slay me, ye bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon them that dwell in it; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.
Matthew 27:4 New Testament, KJV
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Matthew 27:24 New Testament, KJV
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
1 Maccabees 1:37 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:
2 Maccabees 1:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.
2 Maccabees 7:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shall escape unpunished.
Wisdom of Sirach 7:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Bind not one sin upon another; For in one thou shalt not be unpunished.
Daniel 1:53 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 151 1:53 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G121, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G121 FAQ

What does athoos (ἄθωος) mean?

Athoos (Strong's G121) is a Greek word most simply glossed "innocent". athoos (ath'-o-os) adj. 1. not guilty [from G1 (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of G5087 meaning "a penalty"]

How many times is athoos (ἄθωος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 50 linked usages for Strong's G121 across 19 books.

Where can I study athoos (ἄθωος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G121 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate athoos (ἄθωος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as innocent. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G121 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 42 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G121, with linked reader references where each row is available.