Strong's H2398 · Hebrew

chata'

khaw-taw'

a primitive root; properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H2398

H2398 חָטָא miss (a goal or way), go wrong , sin . . miss . sin , miss the goal or path of right and duty . incur guilt , penalty by sin , forfeit . . bear loss . make a sin offering . purify from sin . purify from uncleanness . . miss the mark . induce or cause to sin . bring into guilt , condemnation , punishment . . miss oneself , lose oneself , fig. for be bewildered , beside oneself . purify oneself from uncleanness

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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