ἁμαρτία

See also: αμαρτία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss, fail”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ha.mar.tí.aː/ → /a.marˈti.a/ → /a.marˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ha.mar.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)a.marˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.marˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.marˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.marˈti.a/

Noun

ᾰ̔μᾰρτίᾱ • (hămărtíā) f (genitive ᾰ̔μᾰρτίᾱς); first declension (Attic, Koine)

1. error, mistake, fault, failure
2. (religion, philosophy) guilt, sin

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἁμαρτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἁμαρτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἁμαρτῐ́ᾱ hē hamartĭ́ā	αἱ ἁμαρτῐ́αι hai hamartĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἁμαρτῐ́ᾱς tês hamartĭ́ās	τῶν ἁμαρτῐῶν tôn hamartĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἁμαρτῐ́ᾳ têi hamartĭ́āi	ταῖς ἁμαρτῐ́αις taîs hamartĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἁμαρτῐ́ᾱν tḕn hamartĭ́ān	τᾱ̀ς ἁμαρτῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hamartĭ́ās
Vocative	ἁμαρτῐ́ᾱ hamartĭ́ā	ἁμαρτῐ́αι hamartĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αμαρτία (amartía)

References

• “ἁμαρτία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἁμαρτία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἁμαρτία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἁμαρτία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G266 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blemish idem, page 83.
  • blunder idem, page 86.
  • crime idem, page 184.
  • defect idem, page 204.
  • delinquency idem, page 208.
  • error idem, page 281.
  • evil idem, page 286.
  • failure idem, page 301.
  • fault idem, page 310.
  • flaw idem, page 326.
  • guilt idem, page 378.
  • hitch idem, page 401.
  • iniquity idem, page 441.
  • lapse idem, page 476.
  • misapprehension idem, page 532.
  • miscalculation idem, page 532.
  • misconception idem, page 533.
  • misdeed idem, page 533.
  • mistake idem, page 535.
  • misunderstanding idem, page 536.
  • offence idem, page 571.
  • oversight idem, page 586.
  • sin idem, page 777.
  • slip idem, page 784.
  • transgression idem, page 888.
  • trespass idem, page 893.
  • weakness idem, page 970.
  • wrong idem, page 994.
• “ἁμαρτία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011