hamartanō · sin

What it means

hamartanō (ἁμαρτάνω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sin”.

Fail God, do what he forbids.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To do what God forbids, to fail him.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sinned ×17
• sin ×12
• sins ×5
• sinning ×3
• keep on sinning ×2
• keeps on sinning ×2
• committing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Luke×4
• John×3
• Acts×1
• Romans×7
• 1 Corinthians×7
• Ephesians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1
• 1 John×10

• Matthew 18:15

  And if your brother sins against you, go, reprove him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

• Matthew 18:21

  Then Peter came to him and said, “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

• Matthew 27:4

  saying, “I have sinned by handing over innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You will see to it.”

• Luke 15:18

  I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

• Luke 15:21

  And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

• Luke 17:3

  Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he changes his mind, forgive him.

• Luke 17:4

  And if seven times a day he sins against you and seven times turns back to you, saying, ‘I change my mind,’ you will forgive him.”

• John 5:14

  After these things Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.”

• John 9:2

  And his disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

• John 9:3

  Jesus answered, “Neither this man sinned nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be revealed in him.

• Acts 25:8

  while Paul said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews nor against the temple nor against Caesar have I sinned in anything.”

• Romans 2:12

  For all who sinned without law will also perish without law, and all who sinned under law will be judged by law.

• Romans 3:23

  for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

• Romans 5:12

  Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death spread to all people, because all sinned—

• Romans 5:14

  Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of the one who was to come.

• Romans 5:16

  And the free gift is not like what came through the one who sinned; for the judgment came from one for condemnation, but the gift from many trespasses for a sentence of righteousness.

• Romans 6:15

  What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

• 1 Corinthians 7:28

  But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

• 1 Corinthians 7:36

  But if anyone thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  And so, sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 15:34

  Become sober as is right, and do not sin; for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

• Ephesians 4:26

  Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

• 1 Timothy 5:20

  Those who sin rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also may have fear.

• Titus 3:11

  knowing that such a person is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

• Hebrews 3:17

  And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

• Hebrews 10:26

  For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

• 1 Peter 2:20

  For what credit is there if, when you sin and are beaten, you endure it? But if when you do good and suffer you endure it, this is grace before God.

• 2 Peter 2:4

  For if God did not spare angels who sinned, but cast them into Tartarus and handed them over to chains of gloom, being kept for judgment;

• 1 John 1:10

  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

• 1 John 2:1

  My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus the Messiah, the righteous one.

• 1 John 3:6

  No one who remains in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has seen him or known him.

• 1 John 3:8

  Whoever commits sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

• 1 John 3:9

  No one who has been born of God commits sin, because his seed remains in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

• 1 John 5:16

  If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he will ask, and God will give him life, that is, to those who sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death; I do not say that he should ask about that.

• 1 John 5:18

  We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but the one who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

And 6 more times.