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:
Jeremiah 33:8: "them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities,"
Jeremiah 33:8: "against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed"
Jeremiah 37:18: "king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that"
Jeremiah 40:3: "according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice,"
Jeremiah 44:23: "Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not"
Jeremiah 50:7: "We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice,"
Jeremiah 50:14: "no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD."
Lamentations 1:8: "Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all"
Lamentations 5:7: "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."
Lamentations 5:16: "from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!"
Ezekiel 3:21: "warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin,"
Ezekiel 3:21: "not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned;"
Ezekiel 14:13: "of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand"
Ezekiel 16:51: "Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations"
Ezekiel 18:4: "so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die."
Ezekiel 18:20: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity"
Ezekiel 18:24: "that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die."
Ezekiel 28:16: "they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:"
Ezekiel 33:12: "shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth."
Ezekiel 33:16: "None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful"
Ezekiel 37:23: "them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people,"
Ezekiel 43:20: "of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge"
Ezekiel 43:22: "of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse"
Ezekiel 43:22: "the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock."
Ezekiel 43:23: "When thou hast made an end of cleansing of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish,"
Ezekiel 45:18: "a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:"
Daniel 9:5: " We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:"
Daniel 9:8: "to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned"
Daniel 9:11: "the servant of God, because we have sinned"
Daniel 9:15: "with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly."
Hosea 4:7: "As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame."
Hosea 8:11: "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin."
Hosea 8:11: "to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin."
Hosea 10:9: "O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle"
Hosea 13:2: "And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols"
Micah 7:9: "the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute"
Habakkuk 2:10: "by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul."
Zephaniah 1:17: "that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust,"
