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Strong's #2398: chata' (pronounced khaw-taw')

a primitive root; properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn:--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.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châṭâ'

1) to sin, miss, miss the way, go wrong, incur guilt, forfeit, purify from uncleanness

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to miss

1a2) to sin, miss the goal or path of right and duty

1a3) to incur guilt, incur penalty by sin, forfeit

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to bear loss

1b2) to make a sin-offering

1b3) to purify from sin

1b4) to purify from uncleanness

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to miss the mark

1c2) to induce to sin, cause to sin

1c3) to bring into guilt or condemnation or punishment

1d) (Hithpael)

1d1) to miss oneself, lose oneself, wander from the way

1d2) to purify oneself from uncleanness

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 238 times:

Nehemiah 9:29: "and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do,"
Nehemiah 13:26: "Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations"
Nehemiah 13:26: "nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin."
Job 1:5: "said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus"
Job 1:22: "In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God"
Job 2:10: "this did not Job sin with his lips."
Job 5:24: "shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. and shalt not sin."
Job 7:20: " I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark"
Job 8:4: "If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;"
Job 10:14: "If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity."
Job 24:19: "the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned."
Job 31:30: "Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul."
Job 33:27: "upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;"
Job 35:6: "If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest"
Job 41:25: "When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves."
Psalms 4:4: "Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still."
Psalms 39:1: "I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth"
Psalms 41:4: "unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned"
Psalms 51:4: "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,"
Psalms 51:7: " Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."
Psalms 78:17: " And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness."
Psalms 78:32: "For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works."
Psalms 106:6: " We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly."
Psalms 119:11: "in mine heart, that I might not sin"
Proverbs 8:36: " But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
Proverbs 11:31: "in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner."
Proverbs 13:22: "to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just."
Proverbs 14:21: "He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy"
Proverbs 19:2: "good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth."
Proverbs 20:2: "is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul."
Ecclesiastes 2:26: "in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather"
Ecclesiastes 5:6: "thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel,"
Ecclesiastes 7:20: "that doeth good, and sinneth not."
Ecclesiastes 7:26: "as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape her; but the sinner shall be taken"
Ecclesiastes 8:12: "Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely"
Ecclesiastes 9:2: "and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; as he that feareth"
Ecclesiastes 9:18: "than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good."
Isaiah 1:4: "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,"
Isaiah 29:21: " That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just"
Isaiah 42:24: "did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways,"
Isaiah 43:27: "Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed"
Isaiah 64:5: "behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved."
Isaiah 65:20: "shall die years old; but the sinner being a hundred years old"
Jeremiah 2:35: "thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned."
Jeremiah 3:25: "and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers,"
Jeremiah 8:14: "and given us water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD."
Jeremiah 14:7: "thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned"
Jeremiah 14:20: "and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned"
Jeremiah 16:10: "is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?"
Jeremiah 32:35: "to cause Judah to sin."









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