חַטָּא
chaṭṭâʼ · khat-taw'
a criminal, or one accounted guilty
Lexicon
Derivation: intensively from H2398 (חָטָא);
a criminal, or one accounted guilty
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: offender, sinful, sinner.
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 חַטָּא 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
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the sinners3 · 17%
- sinners3 · 17%
- and sinners2 · 11%
- of these sinners1 · 6%
- of sinful1 · 6%
- shall be counted offenders1 · 6%
- of sinners1 · 6%
- nor sinners1 · 6%
- with sinners1 · 6%
- let the sinners1 · 6%
- if sinners1 · 6%
- and of the sinners1 · 6%
- all the sinners1 · 6%
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.