Join us as we discuss one of the hardest words in the Bible to define: Holy. Many of us think we know what that means, but the truth is that the Biblical authors thought very differently about it than we usually do.

Key words:

Qodesh (Strong's Hebrew 6944)

Qadash (Strong's Hebrew 6942)

Hagios (Strong's Greek 40)

Passages Referenced:

Exodus 3:5

Leviticus 6:25-27

‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭20‬:‭26‬ ‭CSB‬‬

Genesis 2:3

Leviticus 19:2

1 John 3:3

Ephesians 1:1

1 Corinthians 1:1-2

Daniel 4:17

2 Corinthians 2:7

John 6:53-56

Matthew 26:26-28

Join me as we shed new light on the mission of Jesus by tracing sin from hattat in the OT Hebrew to hamartia in the NT Greek.

Recommended resources:

The Exodus Way - The Bible Project

Relevant terms/Strong's concordance numbers:

Hebrew: Hattat, Hata, Chattat (H2403, H2398, H2400)

Greek: Hamartia, Hamartano, Hamartolos (G266, G264, G268)

Passages referenced in OT section:

Psalms 51

Psalms 32

2 Samuel 12:13

Isaiah 1

Ezekiel 36

Example LXX passages that use hamartia identically to hattat:

Numbers 6:11

Leviticus 16:30

Leviticus 4:3

Passages referenced in NT section:

1 Corinthians 15:3

Isaiah 53:10

1 John 1:5-10

Leviticus 17:11

Romans 6 12-14; 22-23

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭20‬-‭21

Romans 5:12-14

‭‭John‬ ‭8‬:‭34‬-‭36‬

Matthew 1:21

Romans 5:9

1 Thessalonians 1:10

2 Peter 3:9

1 Timothy 2:4

Ezekiel 18:31-32

Ezekiel 33:11

Luke 2:29-32

Titus 2:14

Join us as we discuss the Hebrew word our English Bibles translate as sin: hattat.

Words discussed:

hattat (Strong's H2403)

hata (Strong's H2398)

chatta (Strong's H2400)

ra (Strong's H7451)

Passages cited:

Leviticus 4:3, Genesis 4:6-7, Genesis 6:5-6, Genesis 18:20-21, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 39:9, Numbers 6:9-12, Judges 20:16