innocent

, in a condition prepared for worship (for exx. of pagan usage, V. MM, , s.v.). free from ceremonial defilement VGT , , (). holy sacred venerable II Mac 13:8 As in OT (cl.), , , , ; pure chaste undefiled guiltless of persons: , , , ; II Co 7:11 11:12 I Ti 5:22 Tit 2:5 I Jo 3:3 of things: , , .† Phl 4:8 Ja 3:17 I Pe 3:2

(originally, in a condition prepared for worship), pure (either ethically, or ritually, ceremonially), chaste.

pure

onschuldig

properly, clean, i.e. (figuratively) innocent, modest, perfect

chaste, clean, pure

ἁγνός, -ή, -όν (ἅγος, see: ἅγιος), [in LXX chiefly for טָהוֹר (Pss, and Pr. only), also 2Ma.13:8, 4Ma.18:7, al. ;] 1. free from ceremonial defilement, in a condition prepared for worship (for exx. of pagan usage, V. MM, VGT, see word). 2. holy, sacred, venerable (II Mac, l.with). 3. As in OT (cl.), pure, chaste, undefiled, guiltless; (a) of persons: 2Co.7:11 11:12, 1Ti.5:22, Tit.2:5, 1Jn.3:3; (b) of things: Php.4:8, Jas.3:17, 1Pe.3:2. † SYN.: εἰλικρινής (which see), pure, primarily as winnowed, purged, first found in ethical sense in NT (sincere). On the equivalence of ἁ. and καθαρός (which see), see DCG, ii, 459a though Westc. (Epp. Jo., 101) notes a distinction between them. (AS)