Bible word study

Hamartia (Strong’s G266): Meaning in the Bible

Hamartia (ἁμαρτία) is the Greek word numbered G266 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a sin (properly abstract). In the King James Bible it is translated offence, sin(-ful)..

• Original wordἁμαρτία
• Transliterationhamartía
• Pronunciationham-ar-tee'-ah
• Strong’s numberG266
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G264;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Hamartia appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Hamartia (G266) stands behind 176 English renderings in 151 verses across 21 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Romans (48), Hebrews (25), John (17).

How the King James Bible renders Hamartia, by count

• sin93 of 176 (53 percent)
• sins75 of 176 (43 percent)
• of sins3 of 176 (2 percent)
• from1 of 176 (1 percent)
• of1 of 176 (1 percent)
• of sin1 of 176 (1 percent)

Three places to read Hamartia

• Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
• Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
• Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Hamartia in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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