# H2399 חֵטְא

חֵטְא (chêṭᵉʼ), Strong’s H2399: a crime or its penalty KJV: fault, [idiom] grievously, offence, (punishment of) sin.. Occurs 34 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H2399 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*chêṭᵉʼ* — a crime or its penalty

KJV: fault, [idiom] grievously, offence, (punishment of) sin.

Derived from [חָטָא châṭâʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H2398) (to miss)

Occurs 34 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֵטְא n.m. sin
- 1 sin
- 2 guilt of sin
- 3 punishment for sin

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 41:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=9) — Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
- [Leviticus 19:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=17) — “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
- [Leviticus 20:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/20?v=20) — If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die…
- [Leviticus 22:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/22?v=9) — “‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am the…
- [Leviticus 24:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/24?v=15) — You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
- [Numbers 9:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/9?v=13) — But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his…
- [Numbers 18:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/18?v=22) — Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
- [Numbers 18:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/18?v=32) — You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best. You shall not profane the holy things of…
- [Numbers 27:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/27?v=3) — “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the…
- [Deuteronomy 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=9) — Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,”…