Words the Bible translates as punishment
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥattatחַטָּאתpunishment for sin: the penalty or guilt a wrong brings down on the one who commits it
+2 more meanings
- sin: an act or pattern of falling short of what God requires, and the guilt it leaves
- the offering for sin: the animal or rite that purges impurity and clears guilt at the sanctuary
- 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
- ekdikēsisἐκδίκησιςjustice carried out on a wrong: the redress the wronged party is granted and the penalty the wrongdoer is dealt, as two sides of one act
- ḥetחֵטְאsin: a wrong that fails a rightful standard, along with the guilt it creates and the penalty it earns
- pequddahפְּקֻדָּהa visitation: God's decisive coming to deal with a person or people, most often to punish and sometimes to help
+3 more meanings
- oversight: a charge or office entrusted to someone, with responsibility to answer for it
- a mustering: the counting of people and the numbered company it produces
- a store: goods laid up or set in reserve
- kolasisκόλασιςpunishment: the penalty imposed on a wrongdoer, and above all the sentence God hands down at judgment
- timōriaτιμωρίαpunishmentnot studied yet
- epitimiaἐπιτιμίαpunishmentnot studied yet
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