noun: sin; plural noun: sins
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1.an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.“a sin in the eyes of God”
synonyms: immoral act, wrong, wrongdoing, act of evil/wickedness, transgression, crime, offence, misdeed, misdemeanour, error, lapse, fall from grace; More antonyms: virtue, good -
an act regarded as a serious or regrettable fault, offence, or omission.“he committed the unforgivable sin of refusing to give interviews”
synonyms: scandal, crime, disgrace, outrage “the way they spend money—it’s a sin”
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verb
verb: sin; 3rd person present: sins; past tense: sinned; past participle: sinned; gerund or present participle: sinning
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1.commit a sin.“I sinned and brought shame down on us”
synonyms: commit a sin, offend against God, commit an offence, transgress, do wrong, commit a crime, break the law, misbehave, go astray, stray from the straight and narrow, go wrong, fall from grace; archaictrespass“I sinned and brought down shame on us”-
offend against (God, a person, or a principle).“Lord, we have sinned against you”
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WORD ORIGIN
Etymology –Wikipedia
The word derives from “Old English syn(n), for original *sunjō… The stem may be related to that of Latin sons, sont-is guilty. In Old English there are examples of the original general sense, ‘offence, wrong-doing, misdeed'”.[3]The English Biblical terms translated as “sin” or “syn” from the Biblical Greek and Jewish terms sometimes originate from words in the latter languages denoting the act or state of missing the mark; the original sense of New Testament Greek ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin”, is failure, being in error, missing the mark, especially in spear throwing;[4] Hebrew hata “sin” originates in archery and literally refers to missing the “gold” at the centre of a target, but hitting the target, i.e. error.[5]
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