H2403

• {"n":"chatta't","s":"Sin, and also the offering that deals with it. One word for both.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=chatta-t","r":"Leviticus 4:3","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read sin, sin offering, or purification offering according to context."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"Imagine one word meaning both **the debt** and **the payment**. You would never have to explain the relationship between them."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Chatta't is the commonest Hebrew word for sin and is also the technical term for the offering prescribed in Leviticus. The verb behind it carries the sense of missing or failing."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"Every time, English has to choose between sin and sin offering, and the choice hides that they are one word."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When one word names both a problem and its remedy, the language has built the solution into the vocabulary."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Sin and sin offering are both majority renderings in their own contexts; purification offering is a minority modern rendering."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d7\u05b7\u05d8\u05b8\u05bc\u05d0\u05ea chatta't \u00b7 H2403"}],"src":["chatta't as offering: Leviticus 4:3, 8, 20","chatta't as sin: Genesis 4:7; Psalm 51:2","2 Corinthians 5:21 plays on the same double sense in Greek"]}