Strong's #2600: chinnam (pronounced khin-nawm')
from 2580; gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage:--without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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chinnâm
1) freely, for nothing, without cause
1a) gratis, gratuitously, for nothing
1b) for no purpose, in vain
1c) gratuitously, without cause, undeservedly
Part of Speech: adverb
Relation: from H2580
Usage:
This word is used 32 times:
Genesis 29:15: "thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for naught? tell me, what shall thy wages"
Exodus 21:2: "he shall go out free for nothing."
Exodus 21:11: "these three unto her, then shall she go out free money."
Numbers 11:5: "which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks,"
1 Samuel 19:5: "to slay David without a cause?"
1 Samuel 25:31: "unto my lord, blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well"
2 Samuel 24:24: "will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought"
1 Kings 2:31: "and fall upon him, and bury the innocent blood, which Joab shed,"
1 Chronicles 21:24: "that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost."
Job 1:9: "Doth Job fear for naught?"
Job 2:3: "evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause."
Job 9:17: "me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause."
Job 22:6: "For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing."
Psalms 35:7: "For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged"
Psalms 35:7: "have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged"
Psalms 35:19: "over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause."
Psalms 69:4: "They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies"
Psalms 109:3: "also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause."
Psalms 119:161: "Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word."
Proverbs 1:11: "for blood, let us lurk privily without cause:"
Proverbs 1:17: "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."
Proverbs 3:30: "not with a man without cause, if he have done harm."
Proverbs 23:29: "who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?"
Proverbs 24:28: "not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive not with thy lips."
Proverbs 26:2: "by flying, so the curse causeless come."
Isaiah 52:3: "saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed money."
Isaiah 52:5: "that my people for naught? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD;"
Jeremiah 22:13: "and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor's without wages, and giveth him not"
Lamentations 3:52: "Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause."
Ezekiel 6:10: "am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain in vain this evil"
Ezekiel 14:23: "I have not done without cause all that I have done"
Malachi 1:10: "for naught? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD"
