Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
sin
Usage: 1) sin 1a) sin 1b) guilt for sin 1c) punishment for sin Aramaic equivalent: cha.ti (חֲטָי "sin" H2408)
Chete means “fault” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2399 — idiotes (“private person”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2399 חֵטא (chet') is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chet' (khate) n-m. 1. a crime or its penalty [from H2398] It has 33 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include sin, sins, my, grievously, and punishment. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chet' (khate) n-m. 1. a crime or its penalty [from H2398] KJV: fault, X grievously, offence, (punishment of) sin. Root(s): H2398
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sin
Usage: 1) sin 1a) sin 1b) guilt for sin 1c) punishment for sin Aramaic equivalent: cha.ti (חֲטָי "sin" H2408)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chet', 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. 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.
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.
33 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2399.
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2399, grouped by book.
Chete (Strong's H2399) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fault". chet' (khate) n-m. 1. a crime or its penalty [from H2398]
This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's H2399 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2399 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sin, sins, my, grievously, and punishment. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.