Clear, Clearness
Clear, Clearness
kler, klernes (, bar; , diablepo): Equivalent of several Hebrew and Greek words for bright, unclouded, shining without obstruction, distinct, brilliant; clearer than the noon-day (Job 11:17): clear as the sun (Son 6:10); clear shining after rain (2Sa 23:4); clear heat in sunshine (Isa 18:4); clear as crystal (Rev 21:11). Adverb, clearly, for distinctly (Mat 7:5; Mar 8:25; Rom 1:20). Noun, clearness, for brilliancy, in Exo 24:10, as the very heaven for clearness.
From this physical, it is applied, in a moral sense, to character, as spotless and free from guilt, or charge, or obligation from oath (Gen 24:8); from transgression (Psa 19:13). Hence, the verb to clear means juridically to declare or prove innocent, to vindicate (Gen 44:16; Exo 34:7; Num 14:18; compare hagnos, 2Co 7:11, the Revised Version (British and American) pure) Be clear when thou judgest (Psa 51:4) refers to the proof and vindication of the righteousness of God.