Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2399
חֵטְא
chetekhate
sin
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chêṭᵉʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2399is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2399
a crime or its penalty
The King James renders it: fault, [idiom] grievously, offence, (punishment of) sin.
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
chete is rendered "sin". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:9Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
Genesis 41:9חֲטָאַ֕י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sin12
- for own sin his3
- sin his2
- sin of2
- sins my2
- a sin of1
- according to sins our1
- and in sin1
- and sins of1
- by sins our1
- from sins my1
- in own sin his1
and 5 more, 33 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 33, 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
- חֵֽטְא׃6
- בְּחֶטְא֖וֹ3
- חֵ֔טְא2
- חֵ֖טְא2
- בְחֶטְא֣וֹ1
- בַחֲטָאֵ֙ינוּ֙1
- וּ֝בְחֵ֗טְא1
- וַחֲטָאֵ֥י1
- חֵ֛טְא1
- חֵ֣טְא1
- חֵ֤טְא1
- חֵטְא־1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular12HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular4HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural2HR/Ncmpc/Sp1bp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
Genesis
one use
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
- חֲטָאַ֕יchataainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: sins my
Leviticus
four uses
You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.
- חֵֽטְא׃chet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.
- חֶטְאָ֥םchetamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: sin their
The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
- חֵ֔טְאchet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
- חֶטְאֽוֹ׃chetonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sin his
Numbers
four uses
But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
- חֶטְא֥וֹchetonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sin his
No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.
- חֵ֖טְאchet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”
- חֵ֔טְאchet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
- בְחֶטְא֣וֹvechetopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in own sin his
Deuteronomy
eight uses
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- חֵֽטְא׃chet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- חֵ֖טְאchet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
- חֵ֛טְאchet'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a sin of
Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
- חֵ֣טְאchet'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sin of
If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- חֵֽטְא׃chet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.
- חֵֽטְא׃chet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- חֵֽטְא׃ סchet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
- בְּחֶטְא֖וֹbechetopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for own sin his
2 Kings
two uses
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
- חֲטָאֵ֞יchataeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sins of
Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
- בְּחֶטְא֖וֹbechetopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for own sin his
2 Chronicles
one use
Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
- בְּחֶטְא֖וֹbechetopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for own sin his
Psalms
three uses
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- וּ֝בְחֵ֗טְאuvechet'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in sin
Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
- מֵחֲטָאָ֑יmechataaipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: from sins my
He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
- כַ֭חֲטָאֵינוּkhachataeinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: according to sins our
Ecclesiastes
one use
If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
- חֲטָאִ֥יםchataimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sins
Isaiah
four uses
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- חֲטָאֵיכֶ֤םchataeikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: sins your
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- חֵֽטְא׃chet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- חֲטָאָֽי׃chataainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: sins my
Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
- חֵטְא־chet'-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sin of
Lamentations
two uses
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
- חֵ֤טְאchet'noun · masculine singulartagged: sin
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
- חֲטָאָֽיו׃ סchetovnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sins his
Ezekiel
one use
They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”
- וַחֲטָאֵ֥יvachataeiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and sins of
Daniel
one use
O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
- בַחֲטָאֵ֙ינוּ֙vachataeinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: by sins our
Hosea
one use
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
- חֵֽטְא׃chet'noun · masculine singulartagged: 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.