Words the Bible translates as guilt
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- avonעָוֺןiniquity: sin pictured as a crooked thing that clings to the person who did it, carrying within it the deed, the guilt it creates, and the ruin it brings
- ashamאָשָׁםguilt and what is owed to set it right: the wrong a person incurs, the payment that makes amends for it, and the offering that puts it right with God
- ḥetחֵטְאsin: a wrong that fails a rightful standard, along with the guilt it creates and the penalty it earns
- resahרֶשַׁעwickedness: wrongdoing that sets itself against what is right, and the guilt it brings
- ashmahאַשְׁמָהguilt: the culpability a person or community incurs by doing wrong, together with the liability to punishment or repayment it brings
- rishahרִשְׁעָהwickedness: active moral evil and the guilt it carries, the settled opposite of doing right
- ḥata'ahחֲטָאָהsin: a wrong act and the guilt it leaves, usually a grave one whose damage spreads past the person who did it
+1 more meaning
- the offering for sin: the sacrifice that clears a wrong away, called by the same word as the wrong itself
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