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Ancient Hebrew, proving original meanings of sin

Q:9. Show Ancient Hebrew pictographs: sin

Let's consider the Hebrew word for "sin"

Notice sin is defined as a verb, the idea is "mssing". Can you see what this picture is about ? A person with a slingshot is aiming stones towards a covering mounted on a frame outside, with a bull's eye in the middle to register how well his aim was. This is very similar to a game of darts, where a person aims darts onto a covering with a bull's eye, to register how well our missing or aiming was.

Missing implies a relationship of the person to some "Standard" which registers our aiming or our missing.

If we move this picture to a moral sense, the person is throwing parts of his life unto the "moral law" and this "moral law" acts as a register, showing us our aiming and our missing. This is why sinning or missing is defined as transgression of the moral-law.

1Jo 3:4 ...for sin is the transgression of the law.(KJV)

There is another Hebrew word for sins, but this word is slightly different, although both words are translated the same English word "sin" in NT Scripture, causing much confusion.

Here is the other word:

The pictograph reads (left to right) "Outside is the covering Strong. Behold the Being!" This second Hebrew word has a Person in the word. What does this mean ?

See the study of chata (missing).

See the study of chattaah (sin-offering).

The first word means "missing" , the second word means "sin-offering".

When a believer missed God's power in his or her life, because they transgressed the moral law, the believer was required to take an animal innocent of missing, and sacrifice that animal as an atonement, to make things right before GOD, the animal becomes a "sin-offering" for your missing, and the penalty for "missing" is passed from the believer unto the "sin-offering".

This serves two things...(1) It allows the believer to remain living...for the penalty of missing GOD's power is death.. and ...(2) It preserves the moral laws as a standard for GOD's love. The "sin-offering" was in the OT an animal symbol of Jesus. The "sin-offering" in the NT is the death of Jesus on the Cross.

Many believers say we no longer need law when we come to Jesus...

  • Ga 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • Ga 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

    The word "law" there is "torah" which means "Scripture teachings" so when we come to Jesus does that mean we no longer need Scripture, we have Jesus ! But we only know Jesus, through His words in Scripture. So our context in these verses is wrong. These verses are talking about some aspects of Scripture, bring us to Jesus...we need to read all the context...

  • Ga 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

    The verses before show the Scripture teachings are speaking about "sin", the word here is "sin-offering". And the promise by faith in Jesus, is Jesus becomes our "sin-offering" to them that believe. Once we have confessed our missing unto Jesus, our "sin-offering"; we are no longer under the schoolmaster who tells us what to do regarding our sinning.

    Doesn't this make more sense? God does not destroy His own words...and it is important we study God's words carefully...Shalom

    On the next web page we will summarize Ancient Hebrew pictures.

    Ancient Hebrew pictographs

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