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Proverbs 13:21
“Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חַטָּאchaṭṭâʼ · khat-taw'
H2400 · Hebrew
H2400 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a criminal, or one accounted guilty
- Derivation
- intensively from H2398 (חָטָא);
- KJV renderings
- offender, sinful, sinner.
- Grammar
- חַ֭טָּאִים — adjective, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 19 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 13:13Numbers 17:3Numbers 32:141 Samuel 15:181 Kings 1:21
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 חַטָּא 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.