chata · sinner

What it means

chata (חַטָּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sinner”.

One who habitually fails God; also one counted guilty.

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. Someone who lives in sin.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sinners ×17
• sinful ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×3
• Amos×2

• Genesis 13:13

  Now the men of Sodom were evil and great sinners against YHWH.

• Numbers 16:38

  the censers of these sinners at the cost of their lives. And let them make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before YHWH, and they became holy; and they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.”

• Numbers 32:14

  And look, you have risen in place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of YHWH against Israel.

• 1 Samuel 15:18

  And YHWH sent you on a journey and said, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinners, Amalek, and fight against him until you have consumed them.’

• 1 Kings 1:21

  And it will happen, when my lord the king lies down with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted sinners.”

• Psalms 1:1

  Happy is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers;

• Psalms 1:5

  Therefore the wicked will not rise in the judgment, nor sinners in the community of the righteous.

• Psalms 25:8

  Good and upright is YHWH; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.

• Psalms 26:9

  Do not gather with sinners my soul, nor with men of blood my life,

• Psalms 51:13

  I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.

• Psalms 104:35

  Let sinners vanish from the earth, and the wicked be no more. Bless YHWH, my soul. Praise Yah.

• Proverbs 1:10

  My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

• Proverbs 13:21

  Evil pursues sinners, but the righteous will be repaid with good.

• Proverbs 23:17

  Do not let your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of YHWH all day long;

• Isaiah 1:28

  But the shattering of transgressors and sinners will come together, and those who abandon YHWH will be consumed.

• Isaiah 13:9

  Look, the day of YHWH is coming, cruel, and wrath and burning anger, to make the earth a desolation, and its sinners he will destroy from it.

• Isaiah 33:14

  Sinners in Zion are in dread; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can reside with the devouring fire? Who among us can reside with eternal burnings?”

• Amos 9:8

  Look, the eyes of Adonai YHWH are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the ground; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, declares YHWH.

• Amos 9:10

  By the sword all the sinners of my people will die, who say, “The evil will not come near or confront us.”