noun · neuter
hamartēmem
Strong’sG265
a fault, sin, evil deed
stem hamartēm-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἁμάρτημα, -τος, τό
(< ἁμαρτεῖν, v. supr.), [in LXX for חַטָּאָה, עָוֺן etc.;]
SYN.: ἀγνόημα, ἁμαρτία, ἀνομία, ἀσέβεια, ἥττημα, παράβασις, παρακοή, παρανομία, παράπτωμα (v. Cremer, 100; Tr., Syn., § lxvi; DB, iv, 532; DCG, i, 788a; Westc, Eph., 165 f.)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G265 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidham-ar'-tay-mah
a sin (properly concrete)
Fromfrom G264;
King Jamessin.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
failure, fault, Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently in Attic dialect Prose, Refs 5th c.BC+; midway between ἀδίκημα and ἀτύχημα, Refs 4th c.BC+; sinful action, opposed to κατόρθωμα, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | hamartēmem1×ἁμάρτημα | hamartēmeim1×ἁμαρτήματα |
| of, belonging to genitive | hamartēmeu1×ἁμαρτήματος | hamartēmeiu2×ἁμαρτημάτων |
| to, for dative | hamartēme | hamartēmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hamartēme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
hamartēmem“sin”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Corinthians 6:18fugavōr tan porneian; pantem hamartēmem hem ean poiateia anthrōpos ektos teu …Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside …
hamartēmeu“sin”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Mark 3:29… ton aiōnon, alla enochos atō aiōnieu hamartēmeu.… forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin.”
hamartēmeim“sins”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Mark 3:28… afiēkiti toi huioi toiu anthrōpoiu, teim hamartēmeim kai tais blasfēmiais hoseim ean blasfēmaleia;… of men will be forgiven all sins and blasphemies, as many as they …
hamartēmeiu“sins”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Romans 3:25… autou dia tan paresian teiu progenarēnteiu hamartēmeiu… forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
2 Peter 1:9… labarantos tou katharismou taiu palai autou hamartēmeiu.… has been cleansed from his past sins.