עָוֺןʻâvôn

iniquity, guilt, or punishment of iniquity

Pronunciation: aw-vone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5771

Meanings

1. iniquity (Job 15:5; Job 20:27; Jeremiah 11:10)

a. iniquities of my youth (Job 13:26; Job 19:29; Job 31:11)

b. iniquity (1 Samuel 3:13; Isaiah 59:12; Jeremiah 3:13)

c. chastise for iniquity, set our iniquities before thee (Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 5:9; Exodus 34:7)

2. Guilt of iniquity, not always easy to distinguished from 1 (Ezekiel 36:31; Isaiah 59:3; Ezekiel 9:9)

a. guilt of iniquity upon one, without my guilt (Numbers 15:31; 1 Samuel 20:8; 2 Samuel 14:32)

b. guilt (Jeremiah 13:22; Jeremiah 30:14; Jeremiah 30:15)

c. was I brought forth, expire (Psalms 51:7; Joshua 22:20; Jeremiah 31:30)

3. Consequence of, or punishment for, iniquity (Genesis 4:13; Isaiah 5:18; 1 Samuel 28:10)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 231 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 4:13 Cain replied to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear!
  • Genesis 15:16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”
  • Genesis 19:15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
  • Genesis 44:16 Judah answered, “Oh, my lord, what can we say to you? How can we explain this? How can we prove our innocence? God is punishing us for our sins. My lord, we have all returned to be your slaves—all of us, not just our brother who had your cup in his sack.”
  • Exodus 20:5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.
  • Exodus 28:38 Aaron must wear it on his forehead so he may take on himself any guilt of the people of Israel when they consecrate their sacred offerings. He must always wear it on his forehead so the Lord will accept the people.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).