H5356b H5356b
cleanness, emptiness; absence of food, particularly famine conditions
This noun appears in Amos 4:6, where God gave Israel 'cleanness of teeth'—a euphemism for famine. Clean teeth mean no food to chew, nothing stuck between them. Some scholars propose reading 'bluntness' (from a root meaning dull) instead of 'cleanness,' but the traditional reading makes good sense as ironic metaphor. God's judgment took the form of empty stomachs and unstained teeth—the 'cleanness' of having nothing to eat. This understated imagery makes famine's horror more poignant through domestic detail.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — Cleanness or emptiness, specifically the cleanness of teeth that comes from having no food. Amos 4:6 uses this phrase as a euphemism for famine—'I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,' meaning absence of food to eat. The ironic image inverts positive connotations of cleanness, making it synonymous with deprivation. Spanish 'limpieza de' preserves the clean/empty wordplay. 1×
AR["نَظافَةَ"]·ben["পরিষ্কারতা"]·DE["[נקיון]"]·EN["cleanness-of"]·FR["innocent"]·heb["נקיוֹן"]·HI["खालीपन"]·ID["kebersihan"]·IT["[נקיון]"]·jav["untu"]·KO["깨끗함을"]·PT["limpeza-de"]·RU["чистоту"]·ES["limpieza-de"]·SW["usafi-wa"]·TR["temizliğini"]·urd["صفائی"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
† [קֵהָיוֹן] n.[m.] bluntness (LagBN 201);—read perhaps cstr. קִהְיוֹן Am 4:6 (for נִקְיוֹן; v. נִקָּיוֹן).