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a. generally: James 1:15; John 8:46 (where ἁμαρτία must be taken to mean neither error, nor craft by which Jesus is corrupting the people, but sin viewed generally, as is well shown by Lücke at the passage and Ullmann in the Studien und Kritiken for 1842, p. 667ff (cf. his Sündlosigkeit Jesu, p. 66ff (English translation of the 7th ...
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ἁμαρτωλός, (from the form ἁμάρτω, as φειδωλός from...
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Greek and Hebrew words for Sin Biblical words for sin Hebrew. The Old Testament uses 6 different nouns and 3 verbs to describe sin: râ?âh. This term is used more than 600 times and is most often translated as "evil" or "bad" (^ [[Strong's](Strong's_Concordance)\ #7451]^). It carries the implication of something that is contrary to God's nature.
- Introduction
- The Hebrew Word Khata
- Why Do Humans Sin?
- Jesus, The True Human
Most people assume the Bible has a lot to say about how messed up humans are, and that’s true. It’s also true that the Bible’s vocabulary about this topic sounds odd to modern people, using words like sin, iniquity, or transgression. And so the Bible’s perspective on the human condition is often ignored or treated as ancient and backwards. This is ...
Sin translates the Hebrew word khata‘ and the Greek word hamartia. The most basic meaning of sin isn’t religious at all. Khata’ simply means “to fail,” or “miss the goal.” Like when the Israelite tribe of Benjamin trained a small army of slingshot experts, they could sling a stone at a hair and not khata’, that is, fail or miss1 Or there’s a biblic...
So why are humans such bad judges between moral failure and success? Well, the first appearance of the word sin in the Bible offers an insight. There are these two brothers, Cain and Abel. Their parents had just given into this beastly temptation to redefine good and evil by their own wisdom, and now Cain is faced with a similar choice. He’s jealou...
This is why in the Bible, the story of Jesus is such good news. He’s depicted as the Creator become a truly human one, who did not fail to love God and others, that is, he did not sin. And yet he took responsibility for humanity’s history of failure. He lived for others, and he died for their sins. And he was raised from the dead to offer them the ...
NAS: Every [other] sin that a man KJV: fornication. Every sin that a man INT: sexual immorality Every sin which if. Strong's Greek 265 4 Occurrences ἁμάρτημα — 1 Occ. ἁμαρτήματα — 1 Occ. ἁμαρτημάτων — 1 Occ. ἁμαρτήματος — 1 Occ.
ἁμαρτωλός, (from the form ἁμάρτω, as φειδωλός from φείδομαι), devoted to sin, a (masculine or feminine) sinner. In the N. T. distinctions are so drawn that one is called ἁμαρτωλός who is, a. not free from sin.
Sin (266) (hamartia) literally conveys the idea of missing the mark as when hunting with a bow and arrow (in Homer some hundred times of a warrior hurling his spear but missing his foe). Later hamartia came to mean missing or falling short of any goal, standard, or purpose. Hamartia in the Bible signifies a departure from God's holy, perfect ...
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Dec 9, 2021 · Though there are eight words used for sin in the Old Testament and twelve in the New Testament, the two primary words used for sin, “chata” (Hebrew) and “hamartia” (Greek), have the same basic meaning which is “to miss the mark.” 3 These words were used of someone shooting an arrow and missing the target. What target do people miss ...
