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עָוֺן a·van

“iniquity” · 233 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 4 timesExodus: 6 timesLeviticus: 18 timesNumbers: 12 timesDeuteronomy: 2 timesJoshua: 2 timesJudges: 0 timesRuth: 0 times1 Samuel: 8 times2 Samuel: 6 times1 Kings: once2 Kings: once1 Chronicles: once2 Chronicles: 0 timesEzra: 3 timesNehemiah: 2 timesEsther: 0 timesJob: 15 timesPsalms: 31 timesProverbs: 2 timesEcclesiastes: 0 timesSong of Songs: 0 timesIsaiah: 25 timesJeremiah: 24 timesLamentations: 6 timesEzekiel: 44 timesDaniel: 3 timesHosea: 11 timesJoel: 0 timesAmos: onceObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 0 timesMicah: 2 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 0 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: 0 timesZechariah: 2 timesMalachi: onceMatthew: 0 timesMark: 0 timesLuke: 0 timesJohn: 0 timesActs: 0 timesRomans: 0 times1 Corinthians: 0 times2 Corinthians: 0 timesGalatians: 0 timesEphesians: 0 timesPhilippians: 0 timesColossians: 0 times1 Thessalonians: 0 times2 Thessalonians: 0 times1 Timothy: 0 times2 Timothy: 0 timesTitus: 0 timesPhilemon: 0 timesHebrews: 0 timesJames: 0 times1 Peter: 0 times2 Peter: 0 times1 John: 0 times2 John: 0 times3 John: 0 timesJude: 0 timesRevelation: 0 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “iniquity” 153
  • “guilt” 19
  • “punishment” 12
  • “sins” 4
  • “sin” 3
  • other ways 42
As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis4
Exodus6
Leviticus18
Numbers12
Deuteronomy2
Joshua2
1 Samuel8
2 Samuel6
1 Kings1
2 Kings1
1 Chronicles1
Ezra3
Nehemiah2
Job15
Psalms31
Proverbs2
Isaiah25
Jeremiah24
Lamentations6
Ezekiel44
Daniel3
Hosea11
Amos1
Micah2
Zechariah2
Malachi1

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. iniquity153
  2. guilt19
  3. punishment12
  4. sins4
  5. own iniquity3
  6. sin3
  7. wicked3
  8. Not matched to an English word2
  9. final punishment2
  10. iniquity involving2
  11. wrongdoing2
  12. all1
  13. 27 other ways27
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
  • crime 182
  • guilt 28
  • punishment 23

With a pronoun joined

Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“iniquity” 153
  • Genesis 2

    • 15:16 …will return here for the iniquity of the Amorites is…
    • 44:16 …ourselves God has exposed the iniquity of your servants We…
  • Exodus 5

    • 20:5 …a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers on…
    • 28:38 …that he may bear the iniquity of the holy things…
    • 34:7 …a thousand generations forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Yet…
    • 34:7 …unpunished He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on…
    • 34:9 …stiff necked people forgive our iniquity and sin and take…
  • Leviticus 12

    • 5:1 …it he shall bear the iniquity
    • 7:18 …of it shall bear his iniquity
    • 16:21 …confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of…
    • 16:22 …carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place…
    • 17:16 …then he shall bear his iniquity
    • 19:8 …eats it will bear his iniquity for he has profaned…
    • 20:17 …sister he shall bear his iniquity
    • 20:19 …kin both shall bear their iniquity
    • 26:39 …enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in…
    • 26:40 …if they will confess their iniquity and that of their…
    • 26:41 …they will make amends for their iniquity
    • 26:43 …will pay the penalty for their iniquity because they rejected My…
  • Numbers 7

    • 5:15 …memorial as a reminder of iniquity
    • 5:31 …woman shall bear her iniquity
    • 14:18 …in loving devotion forgiving iniquity and transgression Yet He…
    • 14:18 …unpunished He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon…
    • 14:19 …Pardon I pray the iniquity of this people in…
    • 18:23 …and they must bear their iniquity This is a permanent…
    • 30:15 …he will bear her iniquity
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 5:9 …a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers on…
  • 1 Samuel 4

    • 3:13 …judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows…
    • 3:14 …the house of Eli The iniquity of Eli’s house shall…
    • 20:1 …I done What is my iniquity How have I sinned…
    • 20:8 …LORD If there is iniquity in me then kill…
  • 2 Samuel 3

    • 14:32 …and if there is iniquity in me let him…
    • 22:24 …Him and kept myself from iniquity
    • 24:10 …You to take away the iniquity of Your servant for…
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 17:18 …come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death…
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 21:8 …You to take away the iniquity of Your servant for…
  • Ezra 1

    • 9:6 …You my God because our iniquities are higher than our…
  • Nehemiah 2

    • 4:5 …Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin…
    • 9:2 …and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers…
  • Job 11

    • 7:21 …transgression and take away my iniquity For soon I will…
    • 10:6 …that You should seek my iniquity and search out my…
    • 10:14 …would not acquit me of my iniquity
    • 13:23 …How many are my iniquities and sins Reveal to…
    • 13:26 …and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth…
    • 14:17 …You would cover over my iniquity
    • 15:5 …For your iniquity instructs your mouth and…
    • 20:27 …The heavens will expose his iniquity and the earth will…
    • 31:11 …be a heinous crime an iniquity to be judged…
    • 31:28 …this would also be an iniquity to be judged for…
    • 33:9 …am clean with no iniquity in me…
  • Psalms 22

    • 18:23 …Him and kept myself from iniquity
    • 25:11 …name O LORD forgive my iniquity for it is great…
    • 31:10 …my years with groaning my iniquity has drained my strength…
    • 32:5 …and did not hide my iniquity I said I will…
    • 38:4 …For my iniquities have overwhelmed me they…
    • 38:18 …Yes I confess my iniquity I am troubled by…
    • 39:11 …correct a man for his iniquity consuming like a moth…
    • 51:2 …Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from…
    • 51:5 …I was brought forth in iniquity I was sinful when…
    • 51:9 …and blot out all my iniquities
    • 69:27 …Add iniquity to their iniquity let…
    • 69:27 …Add iniquity to their iniquity let them not share…
    • 78:38 …was compassionate He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy…
    • 85:2 …You forgave the iniquity of Your people You…
    • 89:32 …transgression with the rod and to their iniquity with stripes…
    • 90:8 …You have set our iniquities before You our secret…
    • 103:3 …He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your…
    • 103:10 …repaid us according to our iniquities
    • 106:43 …rebellion and sank down in their iniquity
    • 109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be…
    • 130:3 …O LORD kept track of iniquities then who O Lord…
    • 130:8 …redeem Israel from all iniquity
  • Proverbs 1

    • 5:22 The iniquities of a wicked man…
  • Isaiah 7

    • 1:4 …nation a people laden with iniquity a brood of evildoers…
    • 5:18 …to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit…
    • 6:7 …has touched your lips your iniquity is removed and your…
    • 13:11 …evil and the wicked for their iniquity I will end the…
    • 14:21 …to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers They…
    • 26:21 …inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity The earth will reveal…
    • 30:13 …this iniquity of yours is like…

And 73 more, on the full page.

“guilt” 19
  • Exodus 1

    • 28:43 …they will not incur guilt and die This is…
  • Leviticus 1

    • 10:17 …you to take away the guilt of the congregation by…
  • Numbers 2

    • 5:31 …husband will be free from guilt but the woman shall…
    • 14:34 …land you shall bear your guilt forty years a year…
  • Job 1

    • 31:33 …like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart…
  • Psalms 1

    • 32:5 …LORD and You forgave the guilt of my sin Selah…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 27:9 …Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for…
  • Jeremiah 7

    • 2:22 …of soap the stain of your guilt is still before Me…
    • 3:13 …Only acknowledge your guilt that you have rebelled…
    • 14:20 …our wickedness O LORD the guilt of our fathers indeed…
    • 16:17 …hidden from My face and their guilt is not concealed from…
    • 18:23 …Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their…
    • 25:12 …land of the Chaldeans for their guilt declares the LORD and…
    • 50:20 …be made for Israel’s guilt but there will be…
  • Lamentations 2

    • 2:14 …they did not expose your guilt to ward off your…
    • 4:13 …sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests who…
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 21:23 …it will draw attention to their guilt and take them captive…
    • 21:24 …you have drawn attention to your guilt exposing your transgressions so…
  • Hosea 1

    • 9:9 …Gibeah He will remember their guilt He will punish their…
“punishment” 12
  • Genesis 2

    • 4:13 …said to the LORD My punishment is greater than I…
    • 19:15 …will be swept away in the punishment of the city…
  • Leviticus 2

    • 5:17 …guilty and shall bear his punishment
    • 22:16 …and thus to bear the punishment for guilt For I…
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 28:10 …the LORD lives no punishment shall come upon you…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 51:6 …Do not be destroyed in her punishment For this is the…
  • Lamentations 3

    • 4:6 The punishment of the daughter of…
    • 4:22 …O Daughter of Zion your punishment is complete He will…
    • 5:7 …more but we bear their punishment
  • Ezekiel 3

    • 14:10 …They will bear their punishment the punishment of the…
    • 14:10 …will bear their punishment the punishment of the inquirer will…
    • 35:5 …at the final stage of their punishment
“sins” 4
  • Leviticus 1

    • 26:39 …iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers…
  • Psalms 2

    • 40:12 …without number surround me my sins have overtaken me so…
    • 79:8 …Do not hold past sins against us let Your…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 11:10 …They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who…
“sin” 3
  • Leviticus 1

    • 18:25 …I am punishing it for its sin and the land will…
  • 2 Kings 1

    • 7:9 …wait until morning light our sin will overtake us Now…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 22:14 …your dying day this sin of yours will never…
“own iniquity” 3
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 31:30 …Instead each will die for his own iniquity If anyone eats the…
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 7:16 …of the valley each for his own iniquity
    • 18:18 …father he will die for his own iniquity because he practiced extortion…
“wicked” 3
  • Ezekiel 3

    • 14:3 …their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their…
    • 14:4 …his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his…
    • 14:7 …his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his…
“iniquity involving” 2
  • Numbers 2

    • 18:1 …father’s house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary And you…
    • 18:1 …sons alone must bear the iniquity involving your priesthood…
“wrongdoing” 2
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 19:15 …sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a…
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 3:8 …now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman…
Not matched to an English word 2
“final punishment” 2
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 21:25 …the day has come for your final punishment
    • 21:29 …has come the time of their final punishment
“that” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 26:40 …will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in…
“guilt remains” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 15:31 …and broken His commandment his guilt remains on him…
“not the sin” 1
  • Joshua 1

    • 22:17 Was not the sin of Peor enough for…
“because of his sin” 1
  • Joshua 1

    • 22:20 …only Achan who perished because of his sin
“blame be” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 25:24 …and said My lord may the blame be on me alone but…
“any blame be” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 14:9 …My lord the king may any blame be on me and on…
“guilty” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 19:19 …do not hold me guilty and do not remember…
“because of our iniquities” 1
  • Ezra 1

    • 9:7 …guilt has been great Because of our iniquities we and our kings…
“than our iniquities deserve” 1
  • Ezra 1

    • 9:13 …have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us…
“less than your iniquity deserves” 1
  • Job 1

    • 11:6 …God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves
“brings punishment” 1
  • Job 1

    • 19:29 …sword yourselves because wrath brings punishment by the sword so…
“not your iniquities” 1
  • Job 1

    • 22:5 …not your wickedness great Are not your iniquities endless…
“whose iniquity” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 32:2 …Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not…
“own sin” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 36:2 …to detect or hate his own sin
“when wicked” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 49:5 …in times of trouble when wicked usurpers surround me…
“fault of my own” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 59:4 …For no fault of my own they move swiftly to…
“when iniquities” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 65:3 When iniquities prevail against me You…
“through their iniquities” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 107:17 …in their rebellious ways and through their iniquities suffered affliction…
“iniquity is” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 16:6 …loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for and by…
“sinful” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 57:17 …I was enraged by his sinful greed so I struck…
“those” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 65:7 …both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers says…
“all” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 33:8 …Me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion…
“because of their iniquity” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 7:13 …will not be revoked and because of their iniquity not one of them…
“brought their iniquity” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 7:19 …became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity
“same as that” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 14:10 …the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet…
“because of your sins” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 24:23 …you will waste away because of your sins and you will groan…
“whose shields” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 32:27 …placed under their heads whose shields rested on their bones…
“transgression” 1
  • Hosea 1

    • 10:10 …bondage for their double transgression

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.