Vocabulary Form
ἁμαρτία, -ας, ἡ
Definition

Sin

 

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ἁμαρτια
Frequency
173
GK
281
Cognates

Hamartiology is the study of sin.

Mnemonic Singing

Melt the clouds of sin and darkness,
drive the dark of doubt away.

Song
Verse

“How can we who died to ἁμαρτία go on living in it?” (Rom 6:2)

Notes

This word describes both a specific act of sin ("a sin") as well as the concept itself ("sin," "sinfulness").

Biblical Concordance

Romans 5:13 For sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) was in the world before the law was given, but sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) is not charged when there is no law.
Romans 5:20 Now the law came in so that the transgression might increase; but where sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) increased, grace increased all the more,
Romans 5:21 so that just as sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:1 What then shall we say? — “Let us continue in sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτίᾳ | dat sg fem) so that grace may increase”?
Romans 6:2 By no means! How can we who died to sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτίᾳ | dat sg fem) go on living in it?
Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that the body of sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem) would be rendered powerless, so that we would no longer be enslaved by sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτίᾳ | dat sg fem);
Romans 6:7 for the one who has died has been set free from sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem).
Romans 6:10 For the death he died, he died to sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτίᾳ | dat sg fem) once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Romans 6:11 So you too consider yourselves to be dead to sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτίᾳ | dat sg fem) but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
Romans 6:13 Do not continue to present your members to sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτίᾳ | dat sg fem) as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Romans 6:14 For sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) will not have mastery over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem), which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem), you became obedient from the heart to that pattern of teaching to which you were committed,
Romans 6:18 and having been set free from sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem), you became slaves of righteousness.
Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem), you were free with regard to righteousness.
Romans 6:22 But now, freed from sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem) and enslaved to God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification, and its outcome, eternal life.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin (hamartias | ἁμαρτίας | gen sg fem) is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful (hamartiōn | ἁμαρτιῶν | gen pl fem) passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem)? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin (hamartian | ἁμαρτίαν | acc sg fem) except through the law; that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:8 But sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem), seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. (For apart from the law, sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) is dead.)
Romans 7:9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem) came to life
Romans 7:11 For sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem), seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Romans 7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem), in order that it might be shown to be sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem), produced death in me through that which is good so that sin (hamartia | ἁμαρτία | nom sg fem), through the commandment, might be sinful beyond measure
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin (hamartian | ἁμαρτίαν | acc sg fem).