shegaga · inadvertence

What it means

shegaga (שְׁגָגָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inadvertence”.

A sin committed without realizing it or without intending it.

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 committed unknowingly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• inadvertently ×8
• oversight ×6
• error ×2
• inadvertence ×1
• mistake ×1
• who errs ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×9
• Joshua×2
• Ecclesiastes×2

• Leviticus 4:2

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: When a person sins inadvertently against any of the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and does any one of them,

• Leviticus 4:22

  When a chief sins and does inadvertently any one of all the commandments of YHWH his Elohim concerning things that should not be done, and becomes guilty,

• Leviticus 4:27

  And if any one person of the people of the land sins inadvertently by doing any one of the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and becomes guilty,

• Leviticus 5:15

  “When a person acts unfaithfully and sins inadvertently in regard to the holy things of YHWH, he shall bring his guilt offering to YHWH, a ram without defect from the flock, by your valuation in shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary, as a guilt offering.

• Leviticus 5:18

  He shall bring a ram without defect from the flock, by your valuation, as a guilt offering, to the priest, and the priest shall make expiation for him for his inadvertence in which he erred without knowing it, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 22:14

  And if a man eats a holy thing by mistake, he shall add a fifth of it to it and give the holy thing to the priest.

• Numbers 15:24

  then if it was done by oversight, without the knowledge of the community, all the community shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to YHWH, with its grain offering and its libation according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.

• Numbers 15:25

  And the priest shall make expiation for all the community of the sons of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, for it was an oversight, and they have brought their offering, a fire offering to YHWH, and their sin offering before YHWH, for their oversight.

• Numbers 15:26

  And all the community of the sons of Israel shall be forgiven, and the resident alien who resides among them, for all the people acted by oversight.

• Numbers 15:27

  And if one person sins by oversight, he shall present a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

• Numbers 15:28

  And the priest shall make expiation for the person who errs, when he sins by oversight, before YHWH, to make expiation for him, and he shall be forgiven.

• Numbers 15:29

  For the native-born among the sons of Israel and for the resident alien who resides among them there shall be one instruction for you for the one who acts by oversight.

• Numbers 35:11

  you shall select for yourselves cities; they shall be cities of refuge for you, and the manslayer who strikes down a person inadvertently may flee there.

• Numbers 35:15

  For the sons of Israel and for the resident alien and for the temporary resident among them these six cities shall be for refuge, for anyone who strikes down a person inadvertently to flee there.

• Joshua 20:3

  so that the manslayer who mortally strikes a person inadvertently, unknowingly, may flee there; and they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

• Joshua 20:9

  These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the resident alien who resides among them, that anyone who mortally strikes a person inadvertently might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the community.

• Ecclesiastes 5:6

  Do not let your mouth bring your flesh into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was an error. Why should Elohim be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

• Ecclesiastes 10:5

  There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error that goes out from before the ruler:

And 1 more times.