Bible dictionaries
Guiltless
What Bible dictionaries say about “Guiltless”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Guiltless - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
GUILT'LESS, a. Free from guilt, crime or offense; innocent.
The Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. Exo 20.
1. Not produced by the slaughter of animals.
But from the mountain's grassy side
A guiltless feast I bring.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
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 Ex 20:7; De 5:11; 2Sa 14:9; 1Ki 2:9. The other meaning holds in Nu 32:22; Jos 2:19; 2Sa 3:28; Mt 12:5,7.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915