Sinner
חַטָּאStrong’s H2400chatta (chat-ta)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatta is the Hebrew word usually translated “sinners”, “sinful” and “sinners its”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”
Meaning
- Sinners
- Sinful
- Exposed to condemnation, reckoned as offenders
How it's translated
- sinners 9
- and sinners 3
- the sinners 2
- sinful 2
- and sinful 1
- and sinners its 1
- sinners of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Proverbs 3
- Isaiah 3
- Numbers 2
- Amos 2
- Genesis 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 16:38The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
- Numbers 32:14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
- 1 Samuel 15:18And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
- 1 Kings 1:21Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
- Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
- Psalms 1:5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Hebrew dictionary
חַטָּא chatta · sinner
1) sinners adj 2) sinful 3) exposed to condemnation, reckoned as offenders
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sinner” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIN'NER, noun
- One that has voluntarily violated the divine law; a moral agent who has voluntarily disobeyed any divine precept, or neglected any known duty.
- It is used in contradistinction to saint, to denote an unregenerate person; one who has not received the pardon of his sins.
- AN offender; a criminal.
All definitions and other forms of “sinner”
SIN'NER, verb intransitive
To act as a sinner; in ludicrous language. Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.
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.