chet · offense, sin

What it means

chet (חֵטְא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “offense, sin”.

Its penalty.

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. A sin, or its guilt and punishment.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sin ×24
• sins ×10

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×4
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×8
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×4
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 41:9

  Then the chief of the cupbearers spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “My sins I am remembering today.

• Leviticus 19:17

  You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and you shall not bear sin because of him.

• Leviticus 20:20

  And a man who lies with his aunt has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

• Leviticus 22:9

  So they shall keep my charge, so that they do not bear sin because of it and die by it when they profane it. I am YHWH, who sanctifies them.

• Leviticus 24:15

  And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying: Any man who curses his Elohim shall bear his sin.

• Numbers 9:13

  But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present the offering of YHWH at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

• Numbers 18:22

  And the sons of Israel shall no longer come near to the tent of meeting, to bear sin and die.

• Numbers 18:32

  And you shall not bear sin because of it, when you set apart the best of it from it; and you shall not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, so that you will not die.’”

• Numbers 27:3

  “Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the community of those who gathered together against YHWH in the community of Korah, but in his own sin he died, and he had no sons.

• Deuteronomy 15:9

  Guard yourself so that there is not a wicked word in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” and your eye is evil toward your brother, the needy one, and you do not give him anything, and he cries out against you to YHWH, and it becomes sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 19:15

  A single witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin, in any sin that he commits; on the word of two witnesses or on the word of three witnesses a matter shall stand.

• Deuteronomy 21:22

  And if there is in a man a sin with a sentence of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

• Deuteronomy 22:26

  But to the young woman you shall not do anything; the young woman has no sin deserving death, for as when a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case,

• Deuteronomy 23:21

  When you make a vow to YHWH your Elohim, you shall not delay to pay it, for YHWH your Elohim will surely require it of you, and it will be sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 23:22

  But if you refrain from vowing, it will not be sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 24:15

  On his day you shall give him his wages, and the sun shall not go down on him, for he is poor and to it he lifts up his soul; so that he does not cry out against you to YHWH, and it be sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 24:16

  Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; each shall be put to death for his own sin.

• 2 Kings 10:29

  Only from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin, Jehu did not turn away from following them: the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.

• 2 Kings 12:16

  The silver of the guilt offerings and the silver of the sin offerings was not brought into the house of YHWH; it belonged to the priests.

• 2 Kings 14:6

  But the sons of those who struck him he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, which YHWH commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”

• 2 Chronicles 25:4

  But their sons he did not put to death, but acted according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where YHWH commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not die for sons, and sons shall not die for fathers; but each shall die for his own sin.”

• Psalms 51:5

  Look, in iniquity I was brought forth, and in sin my mother conceived me.

• Psalms 51:9

  Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out.

• Psalms 103:10

  Not according to our sins has he dealt with us, nor according to our iniquities has he repaid us.

• Ecclesiastes 10:4

  If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness lays to rest great sins.

• Isaiah 1:18

  Come now, and let us argue it out, says YHWH. If your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; if they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.

• Isaiah 31:7

  For on that day they will reject, each one, his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you, a sin.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Look, for peace I had bitterness, bitterness; but you have loved my soul out of the pit of nothingness, for you have cast behind your back all my sins.

• Isaiah 53:12

  Therefore I will give him a portion with the many, and with the strong he will divide the spoil, because he poured out to death his soul, and with the transgressors he was counted; and he carried the sin of many, and for the transgressors he intercedes.

• Lamentations 1:8

  Sin Jerusalem has sinned; therefore she has become an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she too groans and turns back.

• Lamentations 3:39

  Why should a human being who lives complain? Let a man complain about his sins.

• Ezekiel 23:49

  And they will put your infamy on you, and the sins of your idols you will bear; and you will know that I am Adonai YHWH.”

• Daniel 9:16

  Adonai, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your fury turn away, please, from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

• Hosea 12:8

  And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they will not find in me iniquity that is sin.”