Word study · Hebrew
חָטָא
cha.taH2398to sin
Used 238 times in the tagged text.
What it means
- to sin, miss, miss the way, go wrong, incur guilt, forfeit, purify from uncleanness
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) to sin, miss, miss the way, go wrong, incur guilt, forfeit, purify from uncleanness
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to miss
- 1a2) to sin, miss the goal or path of right and duty
- 1a3) to incur guilt, incur penalty by sin, forfeit
- 1b) (Piel)
- 1b1) to bear loss
- 1b2) to make a sin-offering
- 1b3) to purify from sin
- 1b4) to purify from uncleanness
- 1c) (Hiphil)
- 1c1) to miss the mark
- 1c2) to induce to sin, cause to sin
- 1c3) to bring into guilt or condemnation or punishment
- 1d) (Hithpael)
- 1d1) to miss oneself, lose oneself, wander from the way
- 1d2) to purify oneself from uncleanness
Same idea, other words · Sin
Scripture pictures sin as missing the mark, twisting what is straight, crossing a line and lawlessness. No one word covers it.
- חָטָאchata to sinto miss the mark, to sinH2398
- עָוֺןavan iniquity: crimeiniquity, crookedness, and its guiltH5771
- פֶּ֫שַׁעpesah transgressiontransgression, rebellionH6588
- ἁμαρτίαhamartia sinsin, missing the markG0266
- ἀνομίαanomia lawlessnesslawlessnessG0458
- ἀδικίαadikia unrighteousnessunrighteousness, wrongdoingG0093
- παράπτωμαparaptōma trespasstrespass, a false stepG3900
Where it appears
- Genesis8
- Exodus10
- Leviticus30
- Numbers18
- Deuteronomy6
- Joshua2
- Judges4
- 1 Samuel14
- 2 Samuel4
- 1 Kings23
- 2 Kings18
- 1 Chronicles2
- 2 Chronicles8
- Nehemiah6
- Job12
- Psalms9
- Proverbs6
- Ecclesiastes7
- Isaiah6
- Jeremiah14
- Lamentations3
- Ezekiel16
- Daniel4
- Hosea5
- Micah1
- Habakkuk1
- Zephaniah1
Every use · 151–200 of 238 · BSB
You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—
Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who shows kindness to the poor.
Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.
You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.
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