bor describes cleanness invoked in statements about hands, conduct, recompense, and deliverance.

The attested use concerns cleanness in construct expressions, most clearly connected with hands in statements of recompense and deliverance; the Psalm occurrences place it within descriptions of faithful conduct and being unblemished.

1. Cleanness connected with conduct and hands · dominant

   All supplied forms are masculine singular construct nouns. In 2 Samuel 22:21 and 2 Samuel 22:25, the APB renders clauses about recompense according to “the cleanness of my hands,” while Job 22:30 connects deliverance with “the cleanness of your hands.” In Psalm 18:21 the APB renders surrounding faithful conduct without an identifiable English counterpart for the term, and in Psalm 18:25 it renders the clause with “unblemished.”

   2 Samuel 22:212 Samuel 22:25Job 22:30Psalm 18:21Psalm 18:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “cleanness of my hands” in 2 Samuel 22:21 and 2 Samuel 22:25 and “cleanness of your hands” in Job 22:30. In the Psalm verses it instead presents the surrounding thought as faithful conduct or being “unblemished”.