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Hebrew n-m / h:a · H2400

חַטָּא

chattakhat-taw'

sinner

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

Concordance spelling: chaṭṭâʼ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2400is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2400

a criminal, or one accounted guilty

The King James renders it: offender, sinful, sinner.

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

chatta is rendered "sinner". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
  • The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.

The first use

But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 13:13וְחַטָּאִ֑ים

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

Where the word stands

Six of the word's nineteen uses are in Psalms.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • sinners8
  • and sinners3
  • the sinners2
  • and sinful1
  • and sinners its1
  • in sinners1
  • sinful1
  • sinners of1
  • the sinful1

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.

חַטָּאָהchattaahsinUses295
חַטָּאָהchattaahsin offeringUses1

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

16 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

  • וְ֝חַטָּאִ֗ים2
  • חַ֭טָּאִים2
  • חַטָּאִ֣ים2
  • בַּֽחַטָּאִ֑ים1
  • הַֽחַטָּאָ֔ה1
  • הַֽחַטָּאִ֨ים1
  • הַֽחַטָּאִים֙1
  • וְחַטָּאֶ֖יהָ1
  • וְחַטָּאִ֑ים1
  • וְחַטָּאִ֖ים1
  • חַטָּאֵ֣י1
  • חַטָּאִ֑ים1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine plural9HAampa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural4HC/Aampa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural2HTd/Aampa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HAampc
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Aampc/Sp3fs
  • preposition with the article + adjective · masculine plural1HRd/Aampa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singular1HTd/Aafsa

Genesis

one use
  • But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

    Genesis 13:13

    • וְחַטָּאִ֑יםvechataimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and sinful

Numbers

two uses
  • 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.”

    Numbers 16:38

    • הַֽחַטָּאִ֨יםhachataimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the sinners
  • 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.

    Numbers 32:14

    • חַטָּאִ֑יםchataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinful

1 Samuel

one use
  • and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

    1 Samuel 15:18

    • הַֽחַטָּאִים֙hachataimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the sinners

1 Kings

one use
  • Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”

    1 Kings 1:21

    • חַטָּאִֽים׃chataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners

Psalms

six uses
  • 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.

    Psalms 1:1

    • חַ֭טָּאִיםchataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners
  • Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

    Psalms 1:5

    • וְ֝חַטָּאִ֗יםvechataimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and sinners
  • Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.

    Psalms 25:8

    • חַטָּאִ֣יםchataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners
  • Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

    Psalms 26:9

    • חַטָּאִ֣יםchataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners
  • Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.

    Psalms 51:13

    • וְ֝חַטָּאִ֗יםvechataimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and sinners
  • May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!

    Psalms 104:35

    • חַטָּאִ֨ים׀chataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners

Proverbs

three uses
  • My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

    Proverbs 1:10

    • חַ֝טָּאִ֗יםchataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners
  • Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.

    Proverbs 13:21

    • חַ֭טָּאִיםchataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners
  • Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

    Proverbs 23:17

    • בַּֽחַטָּאִ֑יםbachataimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: in sinners

Isaiah

three uses
  • But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

    Isaiah 1:28

    • וְחַטָּאִ֖יםvechataimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and sinners
  • Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

    Isaiah 13:9

    • וְחַטָּאֶ֖יהָvechataeihaconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and sinners its
  • The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

    Isaiah 33:14

    • חַטָּאִ֔יםchataimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sinners

Amos

two uses
  • Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.

    Amos 9:8

    • הַֽחַטָּאָ֔הhachataahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the sinful
  • All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

    Amos 9:10

    • חַטָּאֵ֣יchataeiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sinners of

The letters

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 TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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