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ἁμαρτάνω

to sin

‘to sin’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓

G264 Strong's Greek
hamartánō Transliteration
/ham-ar-tan'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 43 appearances

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About this entry

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αμαρτανω — transliterated hamartánō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to sin.” Thayer's distinguishes 5 senses for it. The Greek New Testament uses it across 37 verses — moderately common. Debuting at Matthew 18:15, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with Α, αβαρης and αβυσσος. See the sense tree, 37-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
for your faults
Modern gloss
to sin
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G264 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

37
distinct verses
The word appears in 37 distinct verses.
13 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 18:15
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 18:15.
1 John 5:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 John 5:18.
#347
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 347 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 37 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 11 · 30%
  • Acts 1 · 3%
  • Pauline Epistles 14 · 38%
  • General Epistles 11 · 30%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 37 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 14 verses · 38%
  • Gospels 11 verses · 30%
  • Johannine 11 verses · 30%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 9 verses · 24%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 14%
  • Hebrews 2 verses · 5%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Sin 11×, Sinned 7×, Sinneth 6×
  • American Standard Version: Sin 12×, Sinned 8×, Sinneth 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Sin 5×, Sinned 4×, Sins 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sin 10×, Sinned 7×, Sinning 7×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G264 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sin” 11×
  • “Sinned” 7×
  • “Sinneth” 6×
  • “Have sinned” 4×
  • “I have sinned” 3×
  • “Ye sin” 3×

Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G264 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sin” 12×
  • “Sinned” 8×
  • “Sinneth” 6×
  • “Have sinned” 3×
  • “I have sinned” 3×
  • “Ye sin” 2×

Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G264 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sin” 5×
  • “Sinned” 4×
  • “Sins” 4×
  • “I have sinned” 3×
  • “Go on sinning” 2×
  • “Sinning” 2×

Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G264 across 55 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sin” 10×
  • “Sinned” 7×
  • “Sinning” 7×
  • “I have sinned” 3×
  • “Sins” 3×
  • “Do” 2×
  • “Does” 2×
  • “Have sinned” 2×
  • “Having sinned” 2×

Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 5 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to be without a share in
  2. to miss the mark
  3. to err, be mistaken
  4. to miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honour, to do or go wrong
  5. to wander from the law of God, violate God's law, sin

Word origin

Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 05:27,4

Perhaps from G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G3313 ; properly to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize) that is (figuratively) to err especially (morally) to sin : - for your faults offend sin trespass.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 23 distinct written forms G264 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἥμαρτον hḗmarton Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 27:4 8
ἁμαρτάνει hamartánei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 6:18 6
ἁμαρτάνετε hamartánete Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 Corinthians 15:34 3
ἥμαρτεν hḗmarten Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 9:2 3
ἁμάρτανε hamártane Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular John 5:14 2
ἁμάρτῃ hamártē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Luke 17:3 2
ἁμαρτάνοντες hamartánontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 Corinthians 8:12 2
ἁμαρτήσῃ hamartḗsē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 18:15 2
ἁμάρτητε hamártēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 1 John 2:1 1
ἁμαρτάνειν hamartánein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 John 3:9 1
ἁμαρτάνοντα hamartánonta Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 John 5:16 1
ἁμαρτάνοντας hamartánontas Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 Timothy 5:20 1
ἁμαρτάνουσιν hamartánousin Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine 1 John 5:16 1
ἁμαρτάνων hamartánōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 John 3:6 1
ἁμαρτήσαντας hamartḗsantas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Romans 5:14 1
ἁμαρτήσαντος hamartḗsantos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Romans 5:16 1
ἁμαρτήσασιν hamartḗsasin Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine Hebrews 3:17 1
ἁμαρτήσει hamartḗsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 18:21 1
ἁμαρτήσωμεν hamartḗsōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Romans 6:15 1
ἁμαρτανόντων hamartanóntōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Hebrews 10:26 1
ἁμαρτησάντων hamartēsántōn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 2 Peter 2:4 1
ἡμαρτήκαμεν hēmartḗkamen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 John 1:10 1
ἥμαρτες hḗmartes Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 7:28 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G264, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

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Derived from this word

Proper names from this root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αμαρτανω appears 196 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 181 verses in 25 books.

196
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
181
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
25 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G264) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 181. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G264) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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