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Guiltless

gilt'-les: The primary meaning of the Hebrew word is "to be clean." Sometimes the meaning is "freedom from blame," at other times to be "free from punishment," these two ideas running over into each other as with the word "guilt." The latter meaning seems to predominate in Exod 20:7; Deut 5:11; 2 Sam 14:9; 1 Kgs 2:9. The other meaning holds in Num 32:22; Josh 2:19; 2 Sam 3:28; Matt 12:5; Matt 12:7.

Kilde: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (red. James Orr, 1915/1939), public domain. Translated into Danish with AI and not yet proofread.