חַטָּאָה
sin offering
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
49 verses where H2403 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Leviticus. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus
- Leviticus 4:3 חַטָּאת/וֹ֩ לְ/חַטָּֽאת n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c fs if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering.
- Leviticus 4:8 הַֽ/חַטָּ֖את ptcl def.art + n c fs He shall take all the fat of the bull of the sin offering off of it; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
- Leviticus 4:14 הַֽ/חַטָּ֔את לְ/חַטָּ֔את ptcl def.art + n c fs prep + n c fs when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 4:20 הַֽ/חַטָּ֔את ptcl def.art + n c fs Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
- Leviticus 4:24 חַטָּ֖את n c fs He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 4:25 הַֽ/חַטָּאת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He shall pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
- Leviticus 4:29 הַֽ/חַטָּ֑את הַ֣/חַטָּ֔את ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.
- Leviticus 4:32 לְ/חַטָּ֑את prep + n c fs "'If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.
- Leviticus 4:33 הַֽ/חַטָּ֑את לְ/חַטָּ֔את ptcl def.art + n c fs prep + n c fs He shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
- Leviticus 4:34 הַֽ/חַטָּאת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.
- Leviticus 5:6 חַטָּאת/וֹ֩ לְ/חַטָּ֑את מֵ/חַטָּאתֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c fs prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- Leviticus 5:7 לְ/חַטָּ֖את prep + n c fs "'If he can't afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 5:8 לַ/חַטָּ֖את prep det + n c fs He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
- Leviticus 5:9 הַ/חַטָּאת֙ חַטָּ֖את ptcl def.art + n c fs n c fs He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 5:11 לְ/חַטָּ֑את חַטָּ֖את prep + n c fs n c fs "'But if he can't afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 5:12 חַטָּ֖את n c fs He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 6:17 כַּ/חַטָּ֖את prep det + n c fs It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
- Leviticus 6:25 הַֽ/חַטָּ֑את הַֽ/חַטָּאת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 6:30 חַטָּ֡את n c fs No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 7:7 כַּֽ/חַטָּאת֙ prep det + n c fs "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- Leviticus 7:37 וְ/לַֽ/חַטָּ֖את conj + prep det + n c fs This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;
- Leviticus 8:2 הַֽ/חַטָּ֗את ptcl def.art + n c fs "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
- Leviticus 8:14 הַֽ/חַטָּ֑את הַֽ/חַטָּֽאת ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
- Leviticus 9:2 לְ/חַטָּ֛את prep + n c fs and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 9:3 לְ/חַטָּ֔את prep + n c fs You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
- Leviticus 9:8 הַ/חַטָּ֖את ptcl def.art + n c fs So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
- Leviticus 9:10 הַ֣/חַטָּ֔את ptcl def.art + n c fs but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:15 הַֽ/חַטָּאת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
- Leviticus 9:22 הַֽ/חַטָּ֛את ptcl def.art + n c fs Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
- Leviticus 10:16 הַֽ/חַטָּ֗את ptcl def.art + n c fs Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
- Leviticus 10:17 הַֽ/חַטָּאת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
- Leviticus 10:19 חַטָּאתָ֤/ם חַטָּאת֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fs Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happend to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Yahweh?"
- Leviticus 12:6 לְ/חַטָּ֑את prep + n c fs "'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
- Leviticus 12:8 לְ/חַטָּ֑את prep + n c fs If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"
- Leviticus 14:13 הַֽ/חַטָּ֛את כַּ֠/חַטָּאת ptcl def.art + n c fs prep det + n c fs He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 14:19 הַ֣/חַטָּ֔את ptcl def.art + n c fs "The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
- Leviticus 14:22 חַטָּ֔את n c fs and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 14:31 חַטָּ֛את n c fs even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
- Leviticus 15:15 חַטָּ֔את n c fs and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.
- Leviticus 15:30 חַטָּ֔את n c fs The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.
- Leviticus 16:3 לְ/חַטָּ֖את prep + n c fs "Herewith shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 16:5 לְ/חַטָּ֑את prep + n c fs He shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering
- Leviticus 16:6 הַ/חַטָּ֖את ptcl def.art + n c fs "Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
- Leviticus 16:9 חַטָּֽאת n c fs Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering.
- Leviticus 16:11 הַֽ/חַטָּאת֙ הַֽ/חַטָּ֖את ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs "Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.
- Leviticus 16:15 הַֽ/חַטָּאת֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
- Leviticus 16:25 הַֽ/חַטָּ֖את ptcl def.art + n c fs The fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.
- Leviticus 16:27 הַֽ/חַטָּ֜את הַֽ/חַטָּ֗את ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
- Leviticus 23:19 לְ/חַטָּ֑את prep + n c fs You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
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חטאה (chaṭṭâʼâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “sin offering.” It first appears in Genesis 4:7. It turns up in 270 verses across 25 books, a common footprint. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. From the same root come חטא, חטא and חטא. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H2403 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 270
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 270 distinct verses.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #165
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 165 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 270 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 270 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 125 verses · 46%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 101 verses · 37%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 44 verses · 16%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Sin offering 101×, Sin 76×, Sins 46×
- American Standard Version†: Sin-offering 86×, Sin 68×, Sins 39×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Sin offering 104×, Sin 79×, Sins 66×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Sin offering 98×, Sin 75×, Sins 39×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2403 across 296† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 48 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 H2403 across 314† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 64 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 H2403 across 292† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2403 across 295† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
14 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 14 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
חטאה I sinful thing, sin, Ex 34
חטאה II
- 1. sin:
- a. against man Gn 31:36; 50:17 (E), Nu 12:11 (J) 1 S 20:1; ח׳ אדם sins against man Nu 5:6 (P). Elsewhere e.g. Genesis 31:36
- b. against God Lv 4:14, 23, 28 (P), 1 S 2:17; 14:38 1 K 16:13(×2) 2 K 21:16, 17 2 Ch 33:19 Is 3:9; 30:1; 58:1; 59:2, 12 Je 5:25; 16:10, 18; 30:14, 15; 50:20 La 4:6, 22 Ez 16:51; 18:14; 21:29; 33:10, 16 Am 5:12 (We Kl. Proph. reads חטאיכם, as s 1:18—v. חֵטא—on acc. of masc. עצומים), Mi 1:13; 3:8 ψ 32:5; 51:5; 59:4 Pr 5:22; 13:6; 14:34; 21:4; 24:9 Jb 13:23(×2) Dn 9:20(×2) ח׳ נעורי sins of my youth ψ 25:7; פרי בטני ח׳ נפשׁי Mi 6:7 fruit of my body (my child as an offering) for the sin of myself; sin of divination 1 S 15:23; of the mouth ψ 59:13; ח׳ עמי יאכלו Ho 4:8 the sin of my people they eat (gain their daily food by means of it, cf. We; 𝔗 Hi Or al. sin-offering, but this not elsewhere in early proph., and ‖ עָוֹן against it, v. WeProl. 3. 76); לפתח חטאת רבץ Gn 4:7 (J) at the door (of Cain) sin is a crouching beast; sin of the people is embodied in the golden calf Dt 9:21; and the high places of Beth Aven Ho 10:8; c. בְּ on the ground of sin Ne 9:37; for sin Mi 1:5 2 K 24:3 Is 40:2 Je 15:13; 17:3 Ez 16:52; with or by sin 1 K 14:22; 16:2 Is 43:24; הלך בח׳ walk in sin 1 K 15:3, 26, 34; 16:19, 26, 31 2 K 17:22; דבק בח׳ cleave unto sin 2 K 3:3; c. עַל, on account of sin Dt 9:18 1 K 15:30; 16:19 Mi 6:13; for sin Lv 4:3, 28, 35; 5:6, 13 (P) 19:22; 26:18, 24, 28 (H); יסף על ח׳ add unto sin 1 S 12:19 2 Ch 28:13 Is 30:1 Jb 34:37; c. כְּ according to sin Lv 26:21; c. לְ to or for sin Lv 16:16, 21 Dt 19:15 1 K 12:30; 13:34 Pr 10:16 Zc 13:1; c. מִן because of sin Lv 4:26; 5:6, 10; 16:34 (P), 19:22 (H), La 4:13; more than sin Jb 35:3; טָהַרְתִּי מֵחַטָּאתִי I am clean from my sin Pr 20:9; מפני ח׳ because of sin ψ 38:4; בגלל ח׳ because of sin 1 K 14:16; הלך אחר ח׳ walk after sin 2 K 13:2. e.g. Leviticus 4:14
- c. men should return from sin שׁוּב מִן 1 K 8:35 = 2 Ch 6:26, Ez 18:21; 33:14; depart from it סוּר מֵעַל 2 K 10:31; 15:18; סוּר מן 2 K 13:6, 11; 14:24; 15:9, 24, 28; be concerned about דאג מן ψ 38:19; confess הִתְוַדָּה ח׳ Nu 5:7 (P); התודה על ח׳ Ne 1:6; 9:2. e.g. 1 Kings 8:35
- d. God deals with sin: (1) he visits punishment upon it (על) פקד Ex 32:34 (JE) Ho 8:13; 9:9 Je 14:10; inquires after it דרשׁ ל Jb 10:6; watches over it שׁמר על Jb 14:16; hoards it up Ho 13:12; (2) by forgiveness: נשׂא ח׳ Ex 10:17; 32:32 (JE), 1 S 15:25; נשׂא עון ח׳ ψ 32:5; נשׂא לח׳ Jos 24:19 (E), ψ 25:18; pardon סלח לח׳ Ex 34:9 (JE) 1 K 8:34, 36 2 Ch 6:25, 27; 7:14 Je 36:3; removal הסר Is 27:9; העביר 2 S 12:13; casting into the depths of the sea Mi 7:19; (3) by covering over, making atonement for חַטָּֽאתְךָ תְּכֻפָּ֑ר Is 6:7 thy sin shall be covered over; actively, כפּר עַל ח׳ ψ 79:9; כסּה ח׳ ψ 85:3 (cf. כְּסוּי חֲטָאָה ψ 32:1); לְהָתֵם ח׳ (Qr) make an end of sins Dn 9:24; (4) by blotting out מחה ח׳ Is 44:22 Je 18:23 ψ 109:14 Ne 3:37; cleanse from sin טַהֲרֵנִי מח׳ ψ 51:4; מקוֹר לח׳ a fountain for sin Zc 13:1; (5) by not remembering it לא זכר ח׳ Is 43:25; לח׳ לא זכר Je 31:34; אַל־תֵּפֶן אֶל־חַטָּאתוֹ Dt 9:27 look not unto his sin. e.g. Exodus 32:34
- e. atonement may be secured for, כפּר בעד ח׳ Ex 32:30 (JE; Moses, by his intercession). e.g. Exodus 32:30
- f. according to P (H) the priest is to make atonement for a person (כפּר על) by sin-offering or trespass-offering, מח׳ because of sin Lv 4:26; 5:6, 10; 16:34; על ח׳ 4:35; 5:13 (all P), 19:22 (H; v. WeComp, 59 = JBTh xxii, 427), so that the man is clean from sin טהר מח׳ Lv 16:30. e.g. Leviticus 4:26
- 2. condition of sin, guilt of sin Gn 18:20 Nu 16:26; 32:23 (J), Ez 3:20; 18:24, ח׳ יְהוּדָה חֲרוּשָׁה עַל־לוּחַ לִבָּם וּלְקַרְנוֹת מִזְבְּחוֹתֵיכֶם the sin (guilt) of Judah is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars Je 17:1. e.g. Genesis 18:20
- 3. punishment for sin: זֹאת תִּהְיֶה ח׳ מִצְרָ֑יִם וח׳ כָל־הַגּוֹיִם Zc 14:19 this will be the punishment for sin of Egypt and the punishment for sin of all nations (the plague with which Yahweh will smite them). e.g. Zechariah 14:19
- 4. sin-offering: one of the kinds of offering of P, Lv 7:37; first in the history 2 K 12:17 (reign of Jehoash), where חטּאת of money given to priests; elsewhere only in Chr.; 2 Ch 29:21, 23, 24 Hezekiah had made a ח׳ of 7 צְפִירֵי עִזִּים at purification of temple; Ezr 8:35; 12 צְפִירֵי ח׳ were offered; Ne 10:34 ח׳ ‖ עולות;—in these no evidence of special ritual. Sin-offering elsewhere only in codes of H Ez and P.—On Ho 4:8 v. 1 supr. In H, Lv 23:19 a שׂעיר עזים, for feast of weeks. In Ez ח׳ in gen. ‖ other sacrifices, Ez 40:39; 45:17, 25; 46:20; and priests eat them Ez 42:13; 44:29. At dedication of altar, the blood of a young bullock was to be applied to horns of altar, the corners of its settle and its border, the bullock itself burnt without the sanctuary; for each of the 7 days following a שׂעיר עזים was to be offered Ez 43:19, 21, 22, 25. On first day of first month a young bullock was to be offered to cleanse the sanctuary: its blood upt on the door posts of the house and of the gate of the inner court and on the four corners of the settle of the altar; also on the seventh day (𝔊 first day of seventh month) Ez 45:17, 19 (cf. v 18, 20). On 14th day of first month the prince was to offer a bullock for himself and the people and on each of the 7 days of the Passover week a שׂעיר עזים Ez 45:22, 23. When a priest entered the sanctuary to minister after his cleansing he was to offer his sin-offering Ez 44:27. P gives several grades: e.g. Leviticus 7:37
- a. a ruler should offer a he-goat Lv 4:24, 25 Nu 7:16, 22, 28, 34, 40, 46, 52, 58, 64, 70, 76, 82, 87; an ordinary person a she-goat Lv 4:29 (cf. v 28) 5:6 Nu 15:27, ewe lamb Lv 4:32, 33(×2), 34; 14:19 Nu 6:14, 16, a turtle dove or young pigeon Lv 5:7, 8, 9(×2); 12:6, 8; 14:22, 31; 15:15, 30 Nu 6:11, or one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour Lv 5:11(×2), 12; according to ability of the person, and nature of offence. The victim was brought unto the tent of meeting, the hands of the offerer laid on its head, it was slaughtered by the offerer, the priest took some of the blood and put it on horns of altar of burnt-offering and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of it, to cover over the sin, or cleanse the altar from the sin defiling it. All the fat pieces (cf. Lv 4:22–35) and a handful of the flour (cf. Lv 5:12) were burned on altar. The rest of the flesh and the flour were eaten by priests in court of Holy place Lv 5:13; 6:10, 18(×2), 23 (cf. v 11, 19), 7:7; 10:16, 17, 19(×2); 14:13 Nu 18:9. e.g. Leviticus 4:24
- b. a bullock was offered for priests Ex 29:14, 36 Lv 4:3, 8, 20; 8:2, 14(×2); 9:2, 7, 8, 10; for Levites at their installation Nu 8:3, 12 and for whole congregation Lv 4:14, 21; but usually offering for congregation was he-goat Nu 15:24, 25, especially at dedication of altar Lv 9:3, 15, 22, and in ritual of feasts Nu 28:15, 22, 30; 29:5, 11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 38. Before consecr. of tabernacle the blood went to altar of burnt-offering (Lv 9:9), but subsequ. some of it was sprinkled seven times before the vail and some of it put on horns of altar of incense to cleanse this higher altar; the fat pieces were burned on altar of burnt-offering, and the rest of the victim burned without the camp (Lv 4:3–21; 6:23; 8:16, 17; 9:10, 11). e.g. Exodus 29:14
- c. on day of atonement, sin-offering for high priest was a bullock Lv 16:3, 6; and for congregation two he-goats, one לַעֲזָאזֵל (v. עזאזל) Lv 16:5 (cf. v 8, 10, 20–22), the other for sacrifice ליהוה Lv 16:9 (cf. v 8). Some of the blood of Aaron’s bullock was first taken into innermost sanctuary and sprinkled on the כפרת and seven times before it; so also blood of the he-goat Lv 16:11(×2), 15 (cf. v 12–14, 16, 17) to cleanse highest altar: then the blood of the two victims was applied to lower altars as in a and b and so sin was covered over at the three altars Ex 30:10 (cf. Lv 16:16–19). The fat pieces went to altar of burnt-offering and the rest of the victims was burnt without the camp Lv 16:25, 27(×2). (Sins which might be covered over were limited to those committed בשׁגגה Lv 4:2, 22, 27 Nu 15:27, לשׁגגה Nu 15:24, minor offences Lv 5:1–6; and ceremonial uncleanness Lv 12:6, 8; 14:13; 15:15 Nu 6:11, 14.)—Phrases for sacrificing are: עשׂה ח׳ Lv 9:7, 22 14:19 Nu 6:16 Ez 45:17, הקריב ח׳ Lv 10:19 Ez 44:27, שׁחט ח׳ Lv 14:13 Ez 40:39. e.g. Leviticus 16:3
- 5. purification from sins of ceremonial uncleanness, all P: מֵי ח׳ Nu 8:7 water of purification from sin; מֵי נִדָּה ח׳ הוּא water of (cleansing from) impurity, it is a purification from sin Nu 19:9; עֲפַר שְׂרֵפַת הח׳ Nu 19:17 ashes of the burning of the purification from sin (RV renders sin-offering; but there was no offering made, only water of purification was used). e.g. Numbers 8:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.f. sinful thing, sin, Ex 34:7 (JE) Is 5:18.
I. n.f. 1 S 14:38 (Gn 4:7 no exception for רֹבֵץ is noun = crouching beast) sin, sin-offering, ח׳ Gn 4:7 + 124 times; לְחַטָּ֯ת Nu 15:24 (textual error for לחטאת), לְחַטַּאת Zc 13:1 (but read לְחַטָּאת StaZAW i. 35); cstr. חַטַּאת Ex 30:10 + 19 times; sf. חַטָּאתִי Gn 31:36 + 16 times; חַטָּאתֹיו֯ 1 K 16:26, חַטַּאתְכֶם Ex 32:30 + 3 times, etc., + 52 times sf.; pl. חַטָּאוֹת 2 K 12:17 + 3 times; cstr. חַטֹּאות ψ 25:7 + 17 times; חַטֹּאת Nu 5:6 + 6 times; sf. חַטֹּאותָ֑י ψ 25:18; חַטֹּאתָו֯ Ez 18:21; 33:16, etc., + 40 times sf.;—
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Derived from חטא (châṭâʼ) (H2398) — to sin.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲטָאָה
- (חֲטָא)
- 1. sinner. Ber. 60ᵃ ח׳ את art thou a sinner?—Pl. חַטָּאַיָּא, חַטָּאִין, חַטָּאֵי, חַטָ׳, חַטַּיָּיה, חַטַּיָּא. Targ. Prov. I, 10. Targ. Ps. CIV, 35.—Gen. R. s. 12; Yalk. ib. 19. Pesik. Naḥ. p. 128ᵇ; Yalk. Ex. 391; a. e.
- 2. searcher of sin, accuser. Targ. Zech. III, 1 (ed. Lag. יַחֲטָא).
חֶטְאָה
- Targ. Deut. XIX, 15. Targ. I Sam. X, 26. Targ. Gen. IV, 7 (ed. Berl. חִטְאָה, some ed. חַטַּאת). Targ. Prov. XXI, 4 (ed. Lag. חטהא); a. e.—M. Kat. 16ᵃ פרטינן חֶטְאֵיה וכ׳ we must specify his sin publicly. Snh. 37ᵇ חטא אחריתי the sin of another act.—Pl. חֶטְאִין, חִיטְ׳, חֶטְאֵי. Targ. Jer. XIV, 19 (ed. Lag. חובין). Targ. O. Lev. XVIII, 7 (v. זִימָּה II). Targ. Prov. XIV, 34 (ed. Lag. חֶטִהֵי); a. fr. [Ib. XXVIII, 13 חֶטּוֹי, v. חֲטָי.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 172 distinct written forms H2403 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 112 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2403, 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.
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Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 255 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 270 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:7
- Exodus 10:17
- Leviticus 4:3
- Numbers 5:6
- Deuteronomy 9:18
- Joshua 24:19
- 1 Samuel 2:17
- 2 Samuel 12:13
- 1 Kings 8:34
- 2 Kings 3:3
- 2 Chronicles 6:25
- Ezra 8:35
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
