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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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  • Ezekiel 18:24
    But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
  • Ezekiel 28:16
    By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
  • Ezekiel 33:12
    Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
  • Ezekiel 33:16
    None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
  • Ezekiel 37:23
    Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
  • Ezekiel 43:20
    And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
  • Ezekiel 43:22
    And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
  • Ezekiel 43:23
    When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
  • Ezekiel 45:18
    Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
  • Daniel 9:5
    We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: