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Greek verb · G264

ἁμαρτάνω

hamartanoham-ar-tan'-o

to miss the mark (Hom., Æsch., al.), hence metaphorically (Hom., al.), to err, d; In LXX and NT, to violate God's law, to sin

42 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: hamartánō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G264is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 24
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G264

properly, to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e. (figuratively) to err, especially (morally) to sin

The King James renders it: for your faults, offend, sin, trespass.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

hamartano is rendered "to miss the mark (Hom., Æsch., al.), hence metaphorically (Hom., al.), to err, d; In LXX and NT, to violate God's law, to sin". It stands 42 times in the Greek text, across thirteen books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in 1 John, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to miss the mark (Hom., Æsch., al.), hence metaphorically (Hom., al.), to err, d".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

Matthew 18:15ἁμαρτήσῃ

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 14 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: to miss the mark (Hom., Æsch., al.), hence metaphorically (Hom., al.), to err, d, and In LXX and NT, to violate God's law, to sin.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to miss the mark (Hom., Æsch., al.), hence metaphorically (Hom., al.), to err, do wrongTagged as
  • sinning5
  • having sinned4
  • sinned3
  • I have sinned2
  • is sinning2
  • sins2
  • continues to sin1
  • has been sinning1

and 11 more, 31 uses in all

WhereMatthew 18:15If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you…
In LXX and NT, to violate God's law, to sin(for non-Christian exx., see MM, VGT, see word): absol., Mat.18:25 27:4, Luk.17:3, Jhn.5:14 8:11 9:2-3 Rom.2:12 3:23 5:12, 14 5:16 6:15,...Tagged as
  • do sin3
  • have sinned3
  • shall sin3
  • she did sin1
  • you did sin1
WhereMatthew 18:25Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἁμαρτίαhamartiasinUses173
ἁμαρτωλόςhamartolossinfulUses47
ἁμάρτημαhamartemasinUses4
ἀμάραντοςamarantosunfadingUses1
ἀμάρτυροςamartyroswithout witnessUses1
ἀμαράντινοςamarantinosunfadingUses1

All 42, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἥμαρτον7
  • ἁμαρτάνει6
  • ἁμαρτάνετε3
  • ἥμαρτεν3
  • ἁμαρτάνοντες2
  • ἁμάρτῃ2
  • ἁμαρτήσῃ2
  • ἁμάρτανε1
  • ἁμαρτάνειν1
  • ἁμαρτάνοντα1
  • ἁμαρτάνοντας1
  • ἁμαρτανόντων1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular6V-PAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular4V-2AAI-1S
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural4V-2AAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-2AAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-2AAS-3S
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-AAS-3S
  • verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural2V-PAM-2P
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-PAP-NPM
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-2AAI-2S
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-2AAS-2P
  • verb · aorist active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-AAP-APM
  • verb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-AAP-DPM

Matthew

three uses
  • If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

    Matthew 18:15

    • ἁμαρτήσῃhamarteseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall sin
  • Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

    Matthew 18:21

    • ἁμαρτήσειhamarteseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will sin
  • “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

    Matthew 27:4

    • ἥμαρτονhemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I sinned

Luke

four uses
  • I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

    Luke 15:18

    • ἥμαρτονhemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I have sinned
  • The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

    Luke 15:21

    • ἥμαρτονhemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I have sinned
  • Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

    Luke 17:3

    • ἁμάρτῃhamarteverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall sin
  • Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

    Luke 17:4

    • ἁμαρτήσῃhamarteseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he shall sin

John

three uses
  • Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

    John 5:14

    • ἁμάρτανεhamartaneverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do sin
  • and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

    John 9:2

    • ἥμαρτενhemartenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sinned
  • Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.

    John 9:3

    • ἥμαρτενhemartenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sinned

Acts

one use
  • Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

    Acts 25:8

    • ἥμαρτον.¶hemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: have I sinned

Romans

seven uses
  • All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

    Romans 2:12

    • ἥμαρτονhemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: have sinned
    • ἥμαρτονhemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: have sinned
  • for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

    Romans 3:23

    • ἥμαρτονhemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: have sinned
  • Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

    Romans 5:12

    • ἥμαρτονhemartonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: sinned
  • Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

    Romans 5:14

    • ἁμαρτήσανταςhamartesantasverb · aorist active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: having sinned
  • Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.

    Romans 5:16

    • ἁμαρτήσαντοςhamartesantosverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: having sinned
  • What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

    Romans 6:15

    • ἁμαρτήσωμενhamartesomenverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: Shall we sin

1 Corinthians

seven uses
  • Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

    1 Corinthians 6:18

    • ἁμαρτάνειhamartaneiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sins
  • But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

    1 Corinthians 7:28

    • ἥμαρτεςhemartesverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you did sin
    • ἥμαρτενhemartenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she did sin
  • However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.

    1 Corinthians 7:36

    • ἁμαρτάνειhamartaneiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he does sin
  • By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

    1 Corinthians 8:12

    • ἁμαρτάνοντεςhamartanontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: sinning
    • ἁμαρτάνετεhamartaneteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you sin
  • Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

    1 Corinthians 15:34

    • ἁμαρτάνετεhamartaneteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do sin

Ephesians

one use
  • “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

    Ephesians 4:26

    • ἁμαρτάνετεhamartaneteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do sin

1 Timothy

one use
  • But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.

    1 Timothy 5:20

    • ἁμαρτάνονταςhamartanontasverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: sinning

Titus

one use
  • knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.

    Titus 3:11

    • ἁμαρτάνειhamartaneiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is sinning

Hebrews

two uses
  • And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    Hebrews 3:17

    • ἁμαρτήσασινhamartesasinverb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: having sinned
  • If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

    Hebrews 10:26

    • ἁμαρτανόντωνhamartanontonverb · present active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: sin

1 Peter

one use
  • How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

    1 Peter 2:20

    • ἁμαρτάνοντεςhamartanontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: sinning

2 Peter

one use
  • For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

    2 Peter 2:4

    • ἁμαρτησάντωνhamartesantonverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: having sinned

1 John

ten uses
  • If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

    1 John 1:10

    • ἡμαρτήκαμενhemartekamenverb · perfect active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we have sinned
  • My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

    1 John 2:1

    • ἁμάρτητεhamarteteverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: you may sin
    • ἁμάρτῃhamarteverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall sin
  • No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

    1 John 3:6

    • ἁμαρτάνειhamartaneiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sins
    • ἁμαρτάνωνhamartanonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: is sinning
  • The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

    1 John 3:8

    • ἁμαρτάνειhamartaneiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been sinning
  • Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

    1 John 3:9

    • ἁμαρτάνεινhamartaneinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to continue sinning
  • If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.

    1 John 5:16

    • ἁμαρτάνονταhamartanontaverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: sinning
    • ἁμαρτάνουσινhamartanousinverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: sinning
  • We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

    1 John 5:18

    • ἁμαρτάνειhamartaneiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: continues to sin

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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