חֵטְא
chêṭᵉʼ · khate
a crime or its penalty
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2398 (חָטָא);
a crime or its penalty
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: fault, [idiom] grievously, offence, (punishment of) sin.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to surround and contain › strength, the leader
To separate and protect that works to surround and contain of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֵטְא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sin3 · 10%
- for his own sin3 · 10%
- his sin2 · 6%
- no sin2 · 6%
- my faults1 · 3%
- their sin1 · 3%
- in his own sin1 · 3%
- against thee, and it be sin1 · 3%
- in any sin1 · 3%
- have committed a sin1 · 3%
- it of thee; and it would be sin1 · 3%
- it shall be no sin1 · 3%
- and it be sin1 · 3%
- howbeit from the sins1 · 3%
- and in sin1 · 3%
- from my sins1 · 3%
- with us after our sins1 · 3%
- offences1 · 3%
- though your sins1 · 3%
- unto you for a sin1 · 3%
- all my sins1 · 3%
- the sin1 · 3%
- hath grievously1 · 3%
- for the punishment of his sins1 · 3%
- the sins1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.