Sin
חֵטְאStrong’s H2399chet
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chet is the Hebrew word usually translated “sin”, “own sin his” and “sins my”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.”
Meaning
- Singuilt for sin · punishment for sin
How it's translated
- sin 12
- for own sin his 3
- sins my 2
- sin his 2
- sin of 2
- sin their 1
- in own sin his 1
- a sin of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 8
- Leviticus 4
- Numbers 4
- Isaiah 4
- Psalms 3
- 2 Kings 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:9Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
- Leviticus 19:17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
- Leviticus 20:20And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
- Leviticus 22:9They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
- Leviticus 24:15And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 9:13But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
All 33 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֵטְא chet · sin
1) sin 1a) sin 1b) guilt for sin 1c) punishment for sin Aramaic equivalent: cha.ti (חֲטָי "sin" H2408)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIN, noun
- The voluntary departure of a moral agent from a known rule of rectitude or duty, prescribed by God; any voluntary transgression of the divine law, or violation of a divine command; a wicked act; iniquity. sin is either a positive act in which a known divine law is violated, or it is the voluntary neglect to obey a positive divine command, or a rule of duty clearly implied in such command. sin comprehends not action only, but neglect of known duty, all evil thoughts purposes, words and desires, whatever is contrary to God's commands or law. 1 John 3:4Matthew 12:31James 4:17Matthew 12:31
- A sin-offering; an offering made to atone for sin He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin 2 Corinthians 5:21
- A man enormously wicked. [Not in use.]
- sin differs from crime, not in nature, but in application.
All definitions and other forms of “sin”
SIN, verb intransitive
- To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or non-observance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty. Romans 3:9Psalms 51:2
- To offend against right, against men or society; to trespass.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.