cha.ta H2398

חָטָא (cha.ta) means “to sin” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

חָטָא Hebrew · H2398 238 tagged occurrences in 220 verses

Pronunciation guide: khaw-taw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2398

חָטָא · cha.ta · to sin

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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

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

KJV glosses: 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.

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How translators render H2398

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to commit	19
we have sinned	18
sins	15
i have sinned	12
he has committed	11
sin	11
to sin	10
sinned	9
have sinned	6
have i sinned	4
has sinned	3
have committed	3
they have sinned	3
they sin	3
who sins	3
and purify	2
had committed	2
he has sinned	2
purify	2
they have committed	2
they sinned	2
to purify	2
your people have sinned	2
a sinner	1
after he purifies	1
amiss	1
and caused them to commit	1
and forfeiting	1
and he shall cleanse	1
and he who fails	1
and offered it for sin	1
and sin	1
and sinned	1
and sins	1
and so cause you to sin	1
and the sinner	1
and you sinned	1
are sinning	1
bear the guilt	1
bear the guilt before you	1
bore the loss myself	1
bring sin	1
but he who fails to find me	1
but the fault	1
but the sinner	1
but the sinners	1
but to the sinner	1
commit	1
committed	1
drew him into sin	1
for a sin offering	1
for his sin	1
for sin	1
for sinning	1
for we sinned	1
forfeits	1
from sinning	1
had sinned	1
has committed	1
he committed	1
he had committed	1
he has harmed	1
he may have committed	1
he sinned	1
he sins	1
i have done wrong	1
i sinned	1
if i have sinned	1
is to be cleansed	1
it must still be purified	1
misses the mark	1
missing	1
must purify himself	1
o sinful	1
offended	1
or if he commits any such sin	1
purified	1
purify himself	1
purify me	1
purifying	1
she has sinned	1
should sin	1
sinner	1
so it is for the sinner	1
so that i will not sin	1
so that i would sin	1
steals those who have sinned	1
the more they sinned	1
the purification	1
the sin he has committed	1
their sins	1
they cause you to sin	1
they committed	1
they have sinned against you	1
they kept on sinning	1
they withdraw	1
those who indict	1
thus you will cleanse	1
to sin against	1
we have committed	1
we have sinned against you	1
who offers	1
would you sin	1
you are to purify	1
you from sinning	1
you had committed	1
you had sinned	1
you have sinned	1
you people have sinned	1
you sin	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to sin	25
sin	17
i have sinned	11
we have sinned	11
have sinned	6
and sin	5
because they have sinned	5
which he hath sinned	5
hath sinned	4
sinneth	4
because we have sinned	3
for we have sinned	3
that he hath sinned	3
that sinneth	3
he shall purify	2
he sinned	2
if they sin	2
sinned	2
that he hath committed	2
that he sinneth	2
whereby they have sinned	2
which he hath done	2
which he sinned	2
against thee thee only have i sinned	1
also to sin	1
an offender	1
and because ye have sinned	1
and behold ye had sinned	1
and cleanse	1
and hast sinned	1
and he shall cleanse	1
and i have not sinned	1
and made them sin	1
and not miss	1
and now they sin	1
and purified	1
and purifieth	1
and purify	1
and shall not purify	1
and shalt not sin	1
and sinneth	1
and the sinner	1
and they shall cleanse	1
and they sinned	1
and thou hast sinned	1
and thou shalt cleanse	1
and wherein we have sinned	1
as they did cleanse	1
because he hath not sinned	1
because i have sinned	1
because ye have sinned	1
behold ye have sinned	1
but he that sinneth	1
but if he purify	1
but sinned	1
but the fault	1
but the sinner	1
but to the sinner	1
by which they sinned	1
cause to sin	1
committed	1
do not sin	1
do sin	1
even i it is that have sinned	1
for all this they sinned	1
for i have sinned	1
for she hath sinned	1
for the harm	1
from her but the sinner	1
had offended	1
had sinned	1
him not unto thee then i shall bear the blame	1
i have not sinned	1
i have offended	1
if i sin	1
if thou sinnest	1
it and offered it for sin	1
lest they make thee sin	1
lo i have sinned	1
nevertheless it shall be purified	1
not and he doth not sin	1
not because they have sinned	1
not unto thee i bare the loss	1
of cleansing	1
of the sinner	1
purge	1
purify	1
shall be unto him to sin	1
shall sin	1
sinful	1
sinner	1
sinning	1
so should ye sin	1
so they sinned	1
that have sinned	1
that he sinned	1
that i have sinned	1
that i might not sin	1
that i should sin	1
that i sin	1
that offereth it for sin	1
that we have committed	1
that ye sin	1
the sinner	1
thee from sinning	1
them and they made reconciliation	1
then he that sinned	1
then it shall be because he hath sinned	1
then let me bear the blame	1
there we have sinned	1
they purify	1
thou hast sinned	1
though a sinner	1
thus shalt thou cleanse	1
to cleanse	1
trespass	1
unto me we have sinned	1
unto them i have sinned	1
unto us and what have i offended	1
unto us that we have sinned	1
us for we have sinned	1
were purified	1
what have i offended	1
what have i sinned	1
when he sinneth	1
wherefore i have not sinned	1
wherefore then wilt thou sin	1
wherein he hath sinned	1
wherein they have sinned	1
which have sinned	1
which he hath committed	1
which sinneth	1
which they had committed	1
which they have sinned	1
which we have sinned	1
which ye sinned	1
who did sin	1
ye have sinned	1

Verses containing H2398

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Ezekiel 18:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
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Ezekiel 28:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
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Ezekiel 33:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
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Ezekiel 33:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
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Ezekiel 37:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
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Ezekiel 43:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.
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Ezekiel 43:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering, and the altar is to be cleansed as it was with the bull.
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Ezekiel 43:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you have finished the purification, you are to present a young, unblemished bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
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Ezekiel 45:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.
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Daniel 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
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Daniel 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
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Daniel 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
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Daniel 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.
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Hosea 4:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.
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Hosea 8:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
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Hosea 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
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Hosea 13:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
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Micah 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
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Habakkuk 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
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Zephaniah 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.
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