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פֶּ֫שַׁע pe·sah

“transgression” · 93 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 3 timesExodus: 3 timesLeviticus: 2 timesNumbers: onceDeuteronomy: 0 timesJoshua: onceJudges: 0 timesRuth: 0 times1 Samuel: 2 times2 Samuel: 0 times1 Kings: once2 Kings: 0 times1 Chronicles: 0 times2 Chronicles: 0 timesEzra: 0 timesNehemiah: 0 timesEsther: 0 timesJob: 10 timesPsalms: 14 timesProverbs: 12 timesEcclesiastes: 0 timesSong of Songs: 0 timesIsaiah: 11 timesJeremiah: onceLamentations: 3 timesEzekiel: 10 timesDaniel: 3 timesHosea: 0 timesJoel: 0 timesAmos: 10 timesObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 0 timesMicah: 6 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 0 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: 0 timesZechariah: 0 timesMalachi: 0 timesMatthew: 4 timesMark: 0 timesLuke: 0 timesJohn: 0 timesActs: 0 timesRomans: 3 times1 Corinthians: 0 times2 Corinthians: onceGalatians: 0 timesEphesians: 0 timesPhilippians: 0 timesColossians: 0 times1 Thessalonians: 0 times2 Thessalonians: 2 times1 Timothy: 0 times2 Timothy: 0 timesTitus: oncePhilemon: 0 timesHebrews: 2 timesJames: 0 times1 Peter: 0 times2 Peter: 0 times1 John: 2 times2 John: 0 times3 John: 0 timesJude: 0 timesRevelation: 0 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “transgressions” 64
  • “rebellion” 9
  • “rebellious acts” 3
  • “offense” 3
  • “rebellious” 2
  • other ways 12
  • anomia, the Greek the New Testament uses for it 15

In the New Testament it continues as anomia: Romans 4:7 quotes Psalms 32:1, and puts this word in Greek.

As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis3
Exodus3
Leviticus2
Numbers1
Joshua1
1 Samuel2
1 Kings1
Job10
Psalms14
Proverbs12
Isaiah11
Jeremiah1
Lamentations3
Ezekiel10
Daniel3
Amos10
Micah6
Matthew4
Romans3
2 Corinthians1
2 Thessalonians2
Titus1
Hebrews2
1 John2

How the BSB translates it

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

  1. transgressions64
  2. rebellion9
  3. offense3
  4. rebellious acts3
  5. rebellious2
  6. crime1
  7. earth’s rebellion1
  8. illegal possession1
  9. nor my rebellious acts1
  10. own sin1
  11. regarding the transgression1
  12. sin1
  13. 5 other ways5

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.

“transgressions” 64
  • Genesis 2

    • 50:17 …beg you please forgive the transgression and sin of your…
    • 50:17 …now Joseph please forgive the transgression of the servants of…
  • Exodus 1

    • 34:7 …thousand generations forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Yet He…
  • Numbers 1

    • 14:18 …loving devotion forgiving iniquity and transgression Yet He will by…
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 8:50 …against You and all the transgressions they have committed against…
  • Job 7

    • 7:21 …do You not pardon my transgression and take away my…
    • 13:23 …sins Reveal to me my transgression and sin…
    • 14:17 My transgression would be sealed in…
    • 31:33 …if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding…
    • 33:9 …I am pure without transgression I am clean with…
    • 34:6 …though I am without transgression
    • 35:6 …Him If you multiply your transgressions what do you do…
  • Psalms 9

    • 5:10 …out for their many transgressions for they have rebelled…
    • 19:13 …and cleansed of great transgression
    • 32:5 …said I will confess my transgressions to the LORD and…
    • 39:8 …Deliver me from all my transgressions do not make me…
    • 51:1 …great compassion blot out my transgressions
    • 51:3 …For I know my transgressions and my sin is…
    • 59:3 …against me for no transgression or sin of my…
    • 65:3 …me You atone for our transgressions
    • 89:32 …I will attend to their transgression with the rod and…
  • Proverbs 3

    • 10:12 …but love covers all transgressions
    • 17:19 …He who loves transgression loves strife he who…
    • 29:22 …hot tempered man abounds in transgression
  • Isaiah 10

    • 43:25 …He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake…
    • 44:22 …I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and…
    • 50:1 …sold for your iniquities and for your transgressions your mother was sent…
    • 53:5 …But He was pierced for our transgressions He was crushed for…
    • 53:8 …living He was stricken for the transgression of My people…
    • 57:4 …Are you not children of transgression offspring of deceit…
    • 58:1 …Declare to My people their transgression and to the house…
    • 59:12 …For our transgressions are multiplied before You…
    • 59:12 …sins testify against us Our transgressions are indeed with us…
    • 59:20 …in Jacob who turn from transgression declares the LORD…
  • Lamentations 3

    • 1:5 …because of her many transgressions Her children have gone…
    • 1:14 My transgressions are bound into a…
    • 1:22 …me because of all my transgressions For my groans are…
  • Ezekiel 10

    • 14:11 …defile themselves with all their transgressions Then they will be…
    • 18:22 …None of the transgressions he has committed will…
    • 18:28 …and turned from all the transgressions he had committed he…
    • 18:30 …and turn from all your transgressions so that your iniquity…
    • 18:31 …away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed and…
    • 21:24 …to your guilt exposing your transgressions so that your sins…
    • 33:10 …what they have said Our transgressions and our sins are…
    • 33:12 …him in the day of his transgression neither will the wickedness…
    • 37:23 …images or with any of their transgressions I will save them…
    • 39:24 …according to their uncleanness and transgressions and I hid My…
  • Daniel 1

    • 9:24 …holy city to stop their transgression to put an end…
  • Amos 10

    • 1:3 …LORD says For three transgressions of Damascus even four…
    • 1:6 …LORD says For three transgressions of Gaza even four…
    • 1:9 …LORD says For three transgressions of Tyre even four…
    • 1:11 …LORD says For three transgressions of Edom even four…
    • 1:13 …LORD says For three transgressions of the Ammonites even…
    • 2:1 …LORD says For three transgressions of Moab even four…
    • 2:4 …LORD says For three transgressions of Judah even four…
    • 2:6 …LORD says For three transgressions of Israel even four…
    • 3:14 …day I punish Israel for their transgressions I will visit destruction…
    • 5:12 …For I know that your transgressions are many and your…
  • Micah 6

    • 1:5 …All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the…
    • 1:5 …house of Israel What is the transgression of Jacob Is it…
    • 1:13 …Daughter of Zion for the transgressions of Israel were found…
    • 3:8 …to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his…
    • 6:7 …I present my firstborn for my transgression the fruit of my…
    • 7:18 …iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of…
“rebellion” 9
  • Exodus 1

    • 23:21 …he will not forgive rebellion since My Name is…
  • Joshua 1

    • 24:19 …He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins…
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 24:11 …there is no evil or rebellion in my hands I…
  • Job 2

    • 8:4 …He gave them over to their rebellion
    • 34:37 …For he adds rebellion to his sin he…
  • Proverbs 2

    • 28:2 …A land in rebellion has many rulers but…
    • 29:16 …When the wicked thrive rebellion increases but the righteous…
  • Daniel 2

    • 8:12 And in the rebellion the host and the…
    • 8:13 …of the daily sacrifice the rebellion that causes desolation and…
“rebellious acts” 3
  • Leviticus 2

    • 16:16 …because of the impurities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in…
    • 16:21 …it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 5:6 …torn to pieces For their rebellious acts are many and their…
“offense” 3
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 25:28 …Please forgive your servant’s offense for the LORD will…
  • Proverbs 2

    • 17:9 …Whoever conceals an offense promotes love but he…
    • 19:11 …virtue is to overlook an offense
“rebellious” 2
  • Psalms 1

    • 107:17 …Fools in their rebellious ways and through their…
  • Proverbs 1

    • 12:13 …evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech but a righteous…
“crime” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 31:36 …and challenged Laban What is my crime he said For what…
“illegal possession” 1
  • Exodus 1

    • 22:9 …In all cases of illegal possession of an ox a…
“transgressed” 1
  • Job 1

    • 36:9 …deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed
“nor my rebellious acts” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 25:7 …sins of my youth nor my rebellious acts remember me according to…
“whose transgressions” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 32:1 …Maskil Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven whose sins…
“regarding the transgression” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 36:1 …is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man…
“transgressions from us” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 103:12 …far has He removed our transgressions from us
“sin” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 10:19 …When words are many sin is unavoidable but he…
“sins” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 28:13 …He who conceals his sins will not prosper but…
“wrong” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 28:24 …saying It is not wrong is a companion to…
“own sin” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 29:6 …evil man is caught by his own sin but a righteous one…
“earth’s rebellion” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 24:20 …sways like a shack Earth’s rebellion weighs it down and…

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.