STRONGS NUMBER H2135


Word Summary
zakah: to be clear, clean or pure
Original Word: זָכָה
Transliteration: zakah
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kaw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be clear, clean or pure
Meaning: to be translucent, to be innocent
Strong's Concordance
be make clean, cleanse, be clear, count pure

A primitive root (compare zakak); to be translucent; figuratively, to be innocent -- be (make) clean, cleanse, be clear, count pure.

see HEBREW zakak

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2135. zakah

[זָכָה‎] verb be clear, clean, pure, always in moral sense (Assyrian zakû ZimBP; Aramaic דְּכָא‎, , ; compare Arabic be bright (of a fire), pungent (of an odour); be acute, quick of mind) —

Qal Imperfect3masculine singular יִזְכֶּהJob 15:14; 25:4; 2masculine singular תִּזְכֶּהPsalm 51:6; 1singular interrogative הַאֶזְכֶּהMicah 6:11; —

1 be clean, pure, of man, in the sight of God, Job 15:14; 25:4 (in both "" יצדק‎; compare also זַכּוּ15:15; 25:5).

2 be clear, be justified = be regarded as just, righteous, of God, Psalm 51:6 ("" תצדק‎), Micah 6:11.

Pi`el Perfect1singular זִכִּיתִיPsalm 73:13; Proverbs 20:9; Imperfect יְזַכֶּהֿPsalm 119:9: — make or keep clean, pure, object לְבָבִי73:13 ("" כַּמָּ֑י אֶרְחַץ‎), object לִבִּיProverbs 20:9 ("" טָהַרְתִּי‎); object אֶתאָֿרְחוֺPsalm 119:9.

Hithpa`el Imperative masculine plural הִזַּכּוּIsaiah 1:16 make yourselves clean ("" רַחֲצוּ‎); — on form compare Ges§ 54, 2, b, Rem. KöLgb. i, 345, 534 Sta§ 129 d.

זְכוֺכִית‎ see below זכך‎. below