Strong's Lexicon

H2401

H2401 — חֲטָאָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewchata'ahnoun femOccurrences: 8TWOT: 638d

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H2401
Word:חֲטָאָה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:feminine of H2399
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:8
Transliteration:chata'ah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:khat-aw-aw'
Meaning:1. an offence, or a sacrifice for it
KJV Renderings:sin (offering).

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB2698

חֲטָאָה noun feminine sin, sin-offering (?)

1. sin, chiefly in the phrase גְדֹלָה ׳ ח great sin Gen 20:9 ( E ) Exod 32:21; Exod 32:30; Exod 32:31 ( J E ), 2Kgs 17:21 ׳ כְּסוּי ח Ps 32:1 he whose sin is covered is blessed; but the prayer of the wicked becomes sin when he is judged Ps 109:7.
2. sin-offering (according to most) עולה וחטאה Ps 40:7 whole burnt-offering and sin-offering (so Vrss Thes MV SS and others, but < whole burnt-offering with sin see Br MP 329).


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חטאה (g’hat-t)

Exodus 34:7

KJV: Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
EHCC: iniquity and transgression and sin,

Isaiah 5:18

KJV: Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
EHCC: sinas it were witha cart rope:
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