πλημμέλεια
trespass, offense
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where πλημμέλεια appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 42 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 5:15 πλημμέλεια The soul which shall be really unconscious, and shall sin unwillingly in any of the holy things of the Lord, shall even bring to the Lord for his transgression, a ram of the flock without blemish, valued according to shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for his transgression wherein he transgressed.
- Numbers 5:7 πλημμέλεια that person shall confess the sin which he has committed, and shall make satisfaction for his trespass: he shall pay the principal, and shall add to it the fifth part, and shall make restoration to him against whom he has trespassed.
- Joshua 7:1 πλημμέλεια But the children of Israel committed a great trespass, and purloined part of the accursed thing; and Achar the son of Charmi, the son of Zambri, the son of Zara, of the tribe of Juda, took of the accursed thing; and the Lord was very angry with the children of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 24:14 πλημμέλεια As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon you.
- 2 Samuel 14:13 πλημμέλεια And the woman said, Why have you devised this thing against the people of God? or is this word out of the king's mouth as a transgression, so that the king should not bring back his banished?
- 2 Kings 12:17 πλημμέλεια Then went up Azael king of Syria, and fought against Geth, and took it: and Azael set his face to go against Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 33:23 πλημμέλεια And he was not humbled before the Lord as his father Manasses was humbled; for his son Amon abounded in transgression.
- Ezra 9:6 πλημμέλεια and I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded, O my God, to lift up my face to you: for our transgressions have abounded over our head, and our trespasses have increased even to heaven.
- Psalms 67:22 πλημμέλεια The Lord said, I will bring again from Basan, I will bring my people again through the depths of the sea.
- Daniel 9:7 πλημμέλεια To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever you have scattered them, for the sin which they committed.
About this word
About this word
πλημμέλεια (plēmméleia), “trespass, offense,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 42 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →