Strong's Hebrew · H2400

חַטָּא

chaṭṭâʼ · khat-taw'

offender, sinful, sinner.

Definition

a criminal, or one accounted guilty

Derivation

intensively from H2398 (חָטָא);

Appears 19 times in Scripture

Psalms 25:8

Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.

Psalms 1:5

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Psalms 51:13

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.

Numbers 32:14

Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

1 Kings 1:21

Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”

1 Samuel 15:18

and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Psalms 1:1

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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