Transgression

Usually translated “transgression” and “transgressions”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• transgression 5
• transgressions 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Romans 3
• Hebrews 2
• Galatians 1
• 1 Timothy 1

4 books in all.

• Transgression (pesah)
• Lawlessness (paranomia)

• Romans 2:23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
• Romans 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• Romans 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
• Galatians 3:19Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
• Hebrews 2:2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
• Hebrews 9:15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “transgression” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.