Hamartia

Hamartia, or ἁμαρτία, is the Greek word primarily used to describe sin in the New Testament manuscripts. It is described as “a missing of the mark,”¹ or to do anything that is “any act contrary to the will and law of God.”²

1. Frederick W. Danker, The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009), 19, EBSCOhost. ↩︎
2. William D. Mounce, “ἁμαρτία,” billmounce.com, 2025, https://www.billmounce.com/greek-dictionary/hamartia. ↩︎