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Lamentations 1:8
“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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2399 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a crime or its penalty
- Derivation
- from H2398 (חָטָא);
- KJV renderings
- fault, [idiom] grievously, offence, (punishment of) sin.
- Grammar
- חֵ֤טְא — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 35 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 41:9Leviticus 19:17Leviticus 20:20Leviticus 22:9Leviticus 24:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חֵטְא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.