STRONGS NUMBER H2400


Word Summary
chatta: sinful, sinners
Original Word: חַטָּא
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
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 חַטָּאָהAmos 9:8, elsewhere only plural חַטָּאִיםNumbers 32:14-15t.; construct חַטָּאֵיAmos 9:10; suffix חַטָּאֶיהָIsaiah 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 ליהוהsinners against ׳יGenesis 13:13 (J).