Strong's Hebrew · H2400
H2400 chaṭṭâʼ
חַטָּא
khat-taw'
sinner
Looking for Greek G2400 idoú? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H2400. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
chaṭṭâʼ appears 19 times in Scripture, including Genesis 13:13 and Numbers 16:38. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a criminal, or one accounted guilty
In the King James Version
offender, sinful, sinner.
Derivation
intensively from H2398 (חָטָא);
Appears 19 times in Scripture
“Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.”
“Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.”
“Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.”
“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.”
“My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.”
“Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.””
“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.””
“and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’”
“But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.”
“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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
