Definition
a primitive root; properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
Traditional renderings: 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.
Traditional renderings: 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.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders חָטָא:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
238 total
- Jeremiah 33:8חָֽטְאוּ־ · they have committed; חָֽטְאוּ־ · their sinsAnd I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- Jeremiah 37:18חָטָ֨אתִֽי · have I sinnedThen Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?
- Jeremiah 40:3חֲטָאתֶ֤ם · you [people] have sinned…and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to you.
- Jeremiah 44:23חֲטָאתֶ֣ם · and sinnedBecause you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”
- Jeremiah 50:7חָטְא֤וּ · they have sinnedAll who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
- Jeremiah 50:14חָטָֽאָה׃ · she has sinnedLine up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.
- Lamentations 1:8חָֽטְאָה֙Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
- Lamentations 5:7חָֽטְאוּ֙ · sinnedOur fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
- Lamentations 5:16חָטָֽאנוּ׃ · we have sinnedThe crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
- Ezekiel 3:21חֲטֹ֛א · to sin; חָטָ֑א · sinBut if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
- Ezekiel 14:13תֶחֱטָא־ · sins“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 16:51חָטָ֑אָה · commitFurthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.
- Ezekiel 18:4הַחֹטֵ֖את · who sinsBehold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
- Ezekiel 18:20הַחֹטֵ֖את · who sinsThe soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
- Ezekiel 18:24חָטָ֖א · he has committedBut if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
- Ezekiel 28:16וַֽתֶּחֱטָ֑א · and you sinnedBy the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
- Ezekiel 33:12חֲטֹאתֽוֹ׃ · he sinsTherefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
- Ezekiel 33:16חָטָ֔א · he has committedNone of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 37:23חָטְא֣וּ · they sinnedThey will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 43:20וְחִטֵּאתָ֥ · thus you will cleanseYou are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.
- Ezekiel 43:22וְחִטְּאוּ֙ · is to be cleansed; חִטְּא֖וּOn the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull.
- Ezekiel 43:23מֵֽחַטֵּ֑א · the purificationWhen you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
- Ezekiel 45:18וְחִטֵּאתָ֖ · and purifyThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.
- Daniel 9:5חָטָ֥אנוּ · we have sinned…we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
- Daniel 9:8חָטָ֖אנוּ · we have sinnedO LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
- Daniel 9:11חָטָ֖אנוּ · we have sinnedAll Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
- Daniel 9:15חָטָ֖אנוּ · we have sinnedNow, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.
- Hosea 4:7חָֽטְאוּ־ · the more they sinnedThe more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.
- Hosea 8:11לַחֲטֹ֑א · for sin; לַחֲטֹֽא׃ · for sinningThough Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
- Hosea 10:9חָטָ֖אתָ · you have sinnedSince the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
- Hosea 13:2לַחֲטֹ֗א · they sinNow they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
- Micah 7:9חָטָ֖אתִי · I have sinnedBecause I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
- Habakkuk 2:10וְחוֹטֵ֥א · and forfeitingYou have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
- Zephaniah 1:17חָטָ֑אוּ · they have sinnedI will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.