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חָטָא H2398

châṭâʼ

khaw-taw'

a primitive root; properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn; bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

חָטָא 238 vb. miss (a goal or way), go wrong, sin
Qal
1 miss
2 sin, miss the goal or path of right and duty
3 incur guilt, penalty by sin, forfeit
Pi.
1 bear loss
2 make a sin offering
3 purify from sin
4 purify from uncleanness
Hiph.
1 miss the mark
2 induce or cause to sin
3 bring into guilt, condemnation, punishment
Hithp.
1 miss oneself, lose oneself, fig. for be bewildered, beside oneself
2 purify oneself from uncleanness

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


220 occurrences

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  • Ecclesiastes 8:12
    Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
  • Ecclesiastes 9:2
    All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
  • Ecclesiastes 9:18
    Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
  • Isaiah 1:4
    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
  • Isaiah 29:21
    That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
  • Isaiah 42:24
    Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
  • Isaiah 43:27
    Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
  • Isaiah 64:5
    Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
  • Isaiah 65:20
    There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
  • Jeremiah 2:35
    Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.