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Strong's G265 ἁμάρτημα (hamartema)

Hamartema means “sin” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H265 — achoach (“Ahoah”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G265
Language Greek
Linked Usages 39
Books 22

Strong's G265 Quick Answer

Strong's G265 ἁμάρτημα (hamartema) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hamartema (ham-ar'-tay-mah) n. 1. a sin {properly concrete} It has 39 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include sins and sin. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
hamartema (ham-ar'-tay-mah) n. 1. a sin {properly concrete}
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
sins and sin

Meaning and Definition

hamartema (ham-ar'-tay-mah) n. 1. a sin {properly concrete} [from G264] KJV: sin Root(s): G264

Original Word
ἁμάρτημα
Transliteration
hamartema
Derivation
Root: ἁμαρτάνω R1: 264
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G265. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

sin

Usage: ἁμάρτημα, -τος, τό (ἁμαρτεῖν, see supr.), [in LXX for חַטָּאָה, עָוֺן etc. ;] an act of disobedience to divine law (Lft., Notes, 273), a sinful deed, a sin: Mrk.3:28-29, Rom.3:25, 1Co.6:18, 2Pe.1:9, WH, mg.; αἰώνιωv ἀ. (DCG, i, 788a), Mrk.3:29 (for exx. from π., see MM, VGT, see word).† SYN.: ἀγνόημα, ἁμαρτία, ἀνομία, ἀσέβεια, ἥττημα, παράβασις, παρακοή, παρανομία, παράπτωμα (ν. Cremer, 100; Tr., Syn., § lxvi; DB, iv, 532; DCG, l.with; Westc, Eph., 165 f.) (AS)

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How Strong's G265 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hamartema, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's G265 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 19 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G265 (ἁμάρτημα) appears 36 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G265 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G265 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

Mark 3:28 KJV

Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

Mark 4:12 KJV

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

Romans 3:25 KJV

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Strong's G265 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 31:36 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob was angry, and strove with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my injustice, and what my sin, that thou hast pursued after me,

Exodus 28:38 Septuagint / Brenton

And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

Leviticus 4:29 Septuagint / Brenton

And he shall lay his hand on the head of his sin offering, and they shall slay the kid of the sin offering in the place where they slay the victims for whole burnt offerings.

Strong's G265 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 7:28 Septuagint / Brenton

We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have said this day.

Judith 11:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done:

Judith 11:17 Septuagint / Brenton

For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:

Strong's G265 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 99:3 Septuagint / Brenton

In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial, And place them as a testimony before the angels, That they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G265.

Genesis 31:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob was angry, and strove with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my injustice, and what my sin, that thou hast pursued after me,
Exodus 28:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
Leviticus 4:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall lay his hand on the head of his sin offering, and they shall slay the kid of the sin offering in the place where they slay the victims for whole burnt offerings.
Numbers 1:53 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But let the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of witness fronting it, and so there shall be no sin among the children of Israel; and the Levites themselves shall keep the guard of the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers 18:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Levite himself shall perform the service of the tabernacle of witness; and they shall bear their iniquities, it is a perpetual statute throughout their generations; and in the midst of the children of Israel they shall not receive an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 9:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins.
Deuteronomy 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.
Deuteronomy 22:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and slay him, so is this thing;
Joshua 22:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is the sin of Peor too little for you, whereas we have not been cleansed from it until this day, though there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord?
Joshua 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua said to the people, Indeed ye will not be able to serve the Lord, for God is holy; and he being jealous will not forgive your sins and your transgressions.
1 Kingdoms 15:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now remove, I pray thee, my sin, and turn back with me, and I will worship the Lord thy God.
2 Kingdoms 12:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, And the Lord has put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
Isaiah 40:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.
Isaiah 58:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up thy voice as with a trumpet, and declare to my people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.
Isaiah 59:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away his face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you.
Jeremiah 14:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We know, O Lord, our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers: for we have sinned before thee.
Lamentations 1:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let all their wickedness come before thy face; And strip them, as they have made a gleaning for all my sins: For my groans are many, And my heart is grieved.
Ezekiel 18:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he beget a mischievous son, shedding blood and committing sins,
Hosea 10:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the altars of Aven, the sins of Israel, shall be taken away: thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Mark 3:28 New Testament, KJV
Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
Mark 4:12 New Testament, KJV
That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Romans 3:25 New Testament, KJV
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
1 Corinthians 6:18 New Testament, KJV
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Judith 7:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have said this day.
Judith 11:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done:
Judith 11:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:
Judith 13:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceived him to his destruction, and yet hath he not committed sin with me, to defile and shame me.
1 Maccabees 13:39 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it, and the crown tax also, which ye owe us: and if there were any other tribute paid in Jerusalem, it shall no more be paid.
2 Maccabees 5:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.
2 Maccabees 12:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
betook themselves unto prayer, and besought him that the sin committed might wholly be put out of remembrance. Besides, that noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they saw before their eyes the things that came to pass for the sins of those that were slain.
2 Maccabees 13:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
for inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, And he is clean contrary to our doings: He upbraideth us with our offending the law, And objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they cast up the account of their sins, they shall come with fear: And their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.
Wisdom of Solomon 11:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, And winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.
Wisdom of Solomon 12:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But by such works hast thou taught thy people That the just man should be merciful, And hast made thy children to be of a good hope That thou givest repentance for sins.
Wisdom of Solomon 17:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For while they supposed to lie hidden in their secret sins, They were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, Being horribly astonished, And troubled with strange apparitions.
Wisdom of Sirach 18:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Humble thyself before thou be sick, And in the time of sins show repentance.
Wisdom of Sirach 23:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Who will set scourges over my thoughts, And the discipline of wisdom over my heart? That they spare me not for mine ignorances, And it pass not by my sins:
1 Enoch 99:3 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial, And place them as a testimony before the angels, That they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G265, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G265 FAQ

What does hamartema (ἁμάρτημα) mean?

Hamartema (Strong's G265) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sin". hamartema (ham-ar'-tay-mah) n. 1. a sin {properly concrete}

How many times is hamartema (ἁμάρτημα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's G265 across 22 books.

Where can I study hamartema (ἁμάρτημα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G265 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate hamartema (ἁμάρτημα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sins and sin. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G265 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G265, with linked reader references where each row is available.