128.  THE SYNONYMOUS WORDS
USED FOR
"SIN", "WICKEDNESS",
"EVIL", "UNGODLINESS",
"DISOBEDIENCE",
"TRANSGRESSION", ETC.




I.  SIN


  1. The Verb.

    hamartano = to miss the mark or aim; then, to miss or wander from the right path; to go, or do, wrong.

  2. The Noun.

    1. hamartia = a failing to hit the mark; aberration from prescribed law (connected with and resulting from the above).  In N.T. always in a moral sense = a sin, whether by omission or commission, in thought, word, or deed.  Also used in connection with the sin-offering (Heb. 10:6, 8, 18; 13:11, as in Ps. 40:6, cp. Lev. 5:8).

    2. hamartema = the actual sin.  The evil principle in action; the sinful act or deed.

    3. paraptoma = a falling aside, when one should have stood upright.  Hence (morally) a fall, a falling aside from truth and equity; a fault, or trespass.

In Romans 5:12, No. 1 entered the world.  The disobedience of Adam (vv. 15, 17, 18) was No. 3, and the law entered that No. 3 which before was error, might become criminal in the knowledge of the sinner.  After this, where No. 1 abounded, grace did much more abound.


II.  WICKEDNESS


  1. poneria = depravity; iniquity, the wicked acting of the evil nature.  See No. III. 1 below.

  2. kakia = depravity, the vicious disposition and desires, rather than the active exercise of them, which is No. 1 (poneria).


III.  EVIL (Adj. and Noun).


  1. poneros = full of labors and pains in working mischief; evil intent (Matt. 12:39.  Luke 11:29);          grudging, in connection with the idea expressed in the "evil eye" (Matt. 6:23;  20:15.  See the context, and cp. Luke 11:13).

  2. kakos = depraved, bad in nature.  Cp. No. II. 2.

  3. anomos = lawless, contempt of law.

  4. anomia = lawlessness.

  5. athesmos = breaking through all restraints of ordinances or institutes, divine or human, to gratify one's lusts.  Occurs only in 2Pet. 2:7;  3:17.


IV.  UNGODLINESS


  1. asebeia = impiety, absence of "the fear of God", having no reverence for sacred things; irreligious.  Sept. for pasha'.  Ap. 44. ix.


V.  DISOBEDIENCE, ETC.


  1. apeitheia = unwillingness to be persuaded, leading to obstinacy.

  2. parakoe = unwillingness to hear, disobedient.


VI.  TRANSGRESS, TRANSGRESSOR.


  1. parabaino = to step on one side, overstep, go aside from, violate, transgress.

  2. parerchomai = to go past, pass by, neglect.

  3. parabates, one who steps aside, or oversteps.


VII.  INIQUITY


  1. adikia = unrighteousness, wrongdoing.

  2. adikema = a wrong done.

  3. paranomia = acting contrary to law or custom.  Occ. only in 2Pet. 2:16.


VIII.  ERR, ERROR


  1. planao = to cause to wander or go astray; used of doctrinal error and religious deceit.  Cp. planos 1Tim. 4:1, "seducing").

  2. apoplanao.  No. 1 with apo = away from, prefixed (Ap. 104. iv).  In Pass., to go astray from, swerve.  Occ. only in Mark 13:22 and 1Tim. 6:10.

  3. astocheo = to deviate from.  Occ. only in 1Tim. 1:6; 6:21.  2Tim. 2:18.


IX.  FAULT


  1. hettema = a diminishing of that which should have been rendered in full measure; diminution, decrease.  Occ. in Rom. 11:12 and 1Cor. 6:7.




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