παράπτωμα
paráptōma · G3900 · Greek · 19 occurrences
Meanings
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transgression, sin
What a person has done in transgressing the will and law of God by some false step or failure
ExamplesMatthew 6:14 “For if you forgive other people for their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:15 “But if you do not forgive other people, then your Father will not forgive your offenses.
Mark 11:25 “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you for your offenses.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
11 occurrences in 4 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
- εἷςone 3
- σύyou 3
- ἐγώI, we 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- πολύςmany 1
- τὶςsomeone 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πλεονάζωto increase considerably 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 3
- λογίζομαιto count, to reckon, to consider 1
- χαρίζομαιto give freely, to forgive 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πλοῦτοςriches, wealth 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- χάρισμαgift, gracious gift 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- διάthrough 3
- ἐνin 3
- ἐκfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄφεσιςforgiveness, release 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- פֶּשַׁע peshaʻ · H6588 · rebellion, offense, crime
- פֶּשַׁע (peshaʻ, H6588) denotes willful rebellion or transgression against authority, whereas παράπτωμα (paráptōma, G3900) encompasses both unintentional errors (side-slips, lapses) and willful transgressions, making the Greek term semantically broader in covering both deliberate and inadvertent failures.
- מַעַל maʻal · H4604 · unfaithfulness, upwards, above
- מַעַל (maʻal, H4604) denotes treachery, unfaithfulness, or breach of trust (especially covenantal or cultic violation), whereas παράπτωμα (paráptōma, G3900) emphasizes the act of falling aside or stumbling into error/transgression, capturing both unintentional lapses and willful deviations without the specific covenantal-breach connotation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Transgression, sin88.297
- παράπτωμα names a wrongdoing or offense against another, as Jesus teaches on the necessity of forgiving others: “For if you forgive other people for their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” (Matthew 6:14)
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παραπτώματος, τό (παραπίπτω, which see); 1. properly, a fall beside or near something;…
1. properly, a fall beside or near something; but nowhere found in this sense.
2. tropically, a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness; a sin, misdeed (R. V. trespass, 'differing from ἁμάρτημα (which see) in figure not in force' (Fritzsche); cf. Trench, § lxvi.): Mt 6:14,(a G T omit; WH brackets), b; Rec.; Mk 11:25, Mk 11:26 R G L; Rom 4:25; Rom 5:15-18, Rom 5:20; Rom 11:11; 2 Cor 5:19; Gal 6:1; Eph 1:7; Eph 2:1, Eph 2:5; Col 2:13; Jas 5:16 (where L T Tr WH ἁμαρτίας). (Polybius 9, 10, 6; Wis. 3:13 Wis. 10:1; the Sept. several times for מַעַל, עָוֶל, פֶּשַׁע, etc.; of literary faults, Longinus, 36, 2.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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