Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 10/12/2004 21:27, Karl Randolph wrote:

> ...(incidently, when the Jewish writers of the New Testament looked at Koiné Greek and 
> saw it too lacked a generalized term for "sin", they used the archery term 
> referring to missing the target, wonder where they got that idea from?).
>  

Perhaps from the LXX, where hAMARTIA is used 541 times (plus hAMARTHMA 
36 times, hAMARTWLOS 178 times, and the verb hAMARTANW), in very many of 
those cases as a generalised term for "sin".

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