I.  SIN

i. The Verb.

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

ii. 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.

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).

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.

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

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

2.  parakoe = unwillingness to hear, disobedient.

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.

1.  adikia = unrighteousness, wrongdoing.

2.  adikema = a wrong done.

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

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.

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