King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2400
Transliteration: chatta
Phonetic Spelling: (khat-taw')
Part of Speech: Adjective; noun masculine; Adjective; noun masculine
Short Definition: sinful, sinners
Meaning: a criminal, one accounted guilty
Word Summary
chatta: sinful, sinners
Original Word: חַטָּאTransliteration: chatta
Phonetic Spelling: (khat-taw')
Part of Speech: Adjective; noun masculine; Adjective; noun masculine
Short Definition: sinful, sinners
Meaning: a criminal, one accounted guilty
Strong's Concordance
offender, sinful, sinner Intensively from chata'; a criminal, or one accounted guilty -- offender, sinful, sinner.
see HEBREW chata'
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2400. chatta
[חַטָּא] adjective and
noun masculine
1 sinful,
2 sinners — as feminine adjective חַטָּאָה Amos 9:8, elsewhere only plural חַטָּאִים Numbers 32:14-15t.; construct חַטָּאֵי Amos 9:10; suffix חַטָּאֶיהָ Isaiah 13:9; —
1. adjective a. sinful men Numbers 32:14 (J), kingdom Amos 9:8.
b. exposed to condemnation, reckoned as offenders 1 Kings 1:21 (compare Hiph`il Participle Isaiah 29:21). Elsewhere
2. noun masculine sinners Numbers 17:3 (P), 1 Samuel 15:18; Amos 9:10; Isaiah 1:28; 13:9; Psalm 1:1, 5; 25:8; 26:9; 51:15; 104:35; Proverbs 1:10; 13:21; 23:17; ׳ח ליהוה sinners against ׳י Genesis 13:13 (J).