Biblica Analytica

עָוֺן

a.van (H5771G)

iniquity: crime

182 verses 25 books OT 171 / NT 0
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# Understanding עָוֺן (Iniquity) The Hebrew word עָוֺן appears 182 times throughout the biblical text, making it a substantial and recurrent concept in Israelite religious vocabulary. According to the lexicon data provided, it denotes "iniquity" or "crime"—terms that point to wrongdoing or transgression rather than mere error or ignorance. The dual definition suggests the word encompasses both a moral dimension (iniquity as moral corruption) and a legal dimension (crime as violation of established norms). This range indicates that the ancient Hebrew understanding of wrongdoing was not narrowly confined to either religious or civil spheres but bridged both concerns. The frequency of עָוֺן in biblical literature—occurring in roughly 182 instances across the canonical text—demonstrates that concerns about iniquity and its consequences formed a persistent theme in Hebrew religious thought. Rather than appearing sporadically, this word's high frequency suggests that transgression and its remediation were central preoccupations in biblical discourse. The consistent use of this single term across diverse contexts implies that Hebrew writers understood wrongdoing as a unified phenomenon, whether discussed in legal, prophetic, or devotional contexts. Without access to specific usage examples from the lexicon data beyond the lemma itself, the precise nuances of how עָוֺן functioned in particular biblical narratives cannot be

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Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 34:7

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Leviticus 5:1

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5:17

“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 7:18

If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 10:17

“Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?

Leviticus 16:21

Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready.

Leviticus 16:22

The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

Leviticus 17:16

But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’ ”

Leviticus 18:25

The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

Leviticus 19:8

but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 20:17

“ ‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 20:19

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 22:16

and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’ ”

Leviticus 26:39

Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

Leviticus 26:40

“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

Leviticus 26:41

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

Leviticus 26:43

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Numbers 5:15

then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: one tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

Numbers 5:31

The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.’ ”

Numbers 14:18

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

Numbers 14:19

Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

Numbers 14:34

After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

Numbers 15:31

Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”

Numbers 18:1

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

Numbers 18:23

But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.

Numbers 30:15

But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Joshua 22:17

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

Joshua 22:20

Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’ ”

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

1 Samuel 3:14

Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”

1 Samuel 14:41

Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Show the right.” Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.

2 Samuel 3:8

Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

2 Samuel 22:24

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

2 Samuel 24:10

David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

1 Kings 17:18

She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

1 Chronicles 21:8

David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

Ezra 9:6

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Ezra 9:7

Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Ezra 9:13

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Nehemiah 9:2

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Job 10:6

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

Job 10:14

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

Job 13:23

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

Job 13:26

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

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