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Iniquity (299 Occurrences)

Matthew 7:23 Then I will tell them,'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.' (WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Matthew 13:41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, (WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Matthew 23:28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)

Matthew 24:12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Luke 13:27 He will say,'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.' (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Acts 1:18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. (KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Acts 8:23 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity." (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Romans 1:18 For God's anger is being revealed from Heaven against all impiety and against the iniquity of men who through iniquity suppress the truth. God is angry: (WEY)

Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. (KJV ASV WBS RSV)

1 Corinthians 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; (KJV DBY WBS)

2 Corinthians 6:14 Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? (WEB ASV RSV)

2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (KJV WBS)

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. (KJV DBY WBS RSV)

Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works. (WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS RSV)

Hebrews 1:9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows." (WEB KJV ASV WBS)

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna. (WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS NAS)

2 Peter 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. (KJV WBS YLT)

Genesis 15:16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 19:15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Genesis 44:16 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 20:5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 28:38 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 28:43 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 34:7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 34:9 He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 5:1 "'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 5:17 "If anyone sins, and does any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done; though he didn't know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 7:18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 10:17 "Why haven't you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 17:16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 18:25 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 19:8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 20:17 "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 20:19 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 22:16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 26:40 "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 26:41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 26:43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 5:15 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 5:31 The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 14:18 'Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 14:19 Pardon, please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My displeasure. (See RSV)

Numbers 15:31 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 18:1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 23:21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Numbers 30:15 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 5:9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 25:16 for the abomination of Jehovah thy God 'is' any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity. (YLT)

Deuteronomy 32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Joshua 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Joshua 22:20 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn't perish alone in his iniquity.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 3:14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be removed with sacrifice nor offering forever." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. (KJV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Samuel 20:8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Samuel 25:24 She fell at his feet, and said, "On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Samuel 3:8 And it is displeasing to Abner exceedingly, because of the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he saith, 'The head of a dog 'am' I -- that in reference to Judah to-day I do kindness with the house of Saul thy father, unto his brethren, and unto his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David -- that thou chargest against me iniquity concerning the woman to-day? (YLT)

2 Samuel 3:34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him. (WEB JPS ASV)

2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 14:9 The woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Samuel 14:32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying,'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Samuel 19:19 He said to the king, "Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Samuel 22:24 I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

2 Samuel 24:10 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 24:17 And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Behold, it is I that have sinned, and it is I that have committed iniquity; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be on me, and on my father's house! (DBY)

1 Kings 8:47 and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done iniquity, we have dealt perversely; (DBY NAS)

1 Kings 17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come to me to call mine iniquity to remembrance, and to slay my son? (DBY YLT NAS)

2 Kings 7:9 And they said one to another, We are not doing right; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, the iniquity will find us out; and now come, let us go and tell the king's household. (DBY)

1 Chronicles 21:8 David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 6:37 and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done iniquity and have dealt perversely; (DBY NAS)

2 Chronicles 19:7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Nehemiah 4:5 and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked you to anger before the builders. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Job 4:8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. (KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. (KJV WBS)

Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? (KJV WBS)

Job 7:21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 10:6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Job 10:14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Job 11:6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Job 11:11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Job 11:14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 14:17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 15:5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Job 15:16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit." (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

Job 20:27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 21:19 You say,'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Job 22:15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? (YLT)

Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. (KJV WBS YLT)

Job 31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 31:11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 31:28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 31:33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 33:9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

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Thesaurus
Iniquity (299 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Gross injustice; unfairness; wickedness; sin;
as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. ...INIQUITY. ...
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Pardoned (21 Occurrences)
... Numbers 14:19 Pardon, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the
greatness of Thy lovingkindness, and according as Thou hast forgiven this ...
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Stumblingblock (14 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 3:20 Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because ...
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Perverseness (46 Occurrences)
... Numbers 23:21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. ... (YLT). Job 11:14 If iniquity 'is'
in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents. ...
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Visiting (10 Occurrences)
... Exodus 20:5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh
your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the ...
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Charging (27 Occurrences)
... Exodus 20:5 Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy
God, 'am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third ...
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Stumbling-block (20 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because ...
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Commits (39 Occurrences)
... son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and
with the stripes of the children of men; (WEB NAS RSV). ...
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Pardon (31 Occurrences)
... If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst
of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our ...
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Expiated (6 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 3:14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity
of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever. ...
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Greek
4189. poneria -- iniquity
... iniquity. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: poneria Phonetic Spelling:
(pon-ay-ree'-ah) Short Definition: wickedness, iniquities Definition ...
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458. anomia -- lawlessness
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: anomia Phonetic Spelling:
(an-om-ee'-ah) Short Definition: lawlessness, iniquity Definition: lawlessness ...
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93. adikia -- injustice, unrighteousness
... Word Origin from adikos Definition injustice, unrighteousness NASB Word Usage doing
wrong (1), evildoers (1), iniquities (1), iniquity (2), injustice (1 ...
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3892. paranomia -- lawbreaking
... transgression, iniquity. From the same as paranomeo; transgression: iniquity. see
GREEK paranomeo. (paranomias) -- 1 Occurrence. << 3891, 3892. paranomia. 3893 ...
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92. adikema -- a wrong, injury
... evil doing, iniquity, matter of wrong. From adikeo; a wrong done -- evil doing,
iniquity, matter of wrong. see GREEK adikeo. (adikema) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
INIQUITY

in-ik'-wi-ti (`awon; anomia): In the Old Testament of the 11 words translated "iniquity," by far the most common and important is `awon (about 215 times). Etymologically, it is customary to explain it as meaning literally "crookedness," "perverseness," i.e. evil regarded as that which is not straight or upright, moral distortion (from `iwwah, "to bend," "make crooked," "pervert"). Driver, however (following Lagarde), maintains that two roots, distinct in Arabic, have been confused in Hebrew, one equals "to bend," "pervert" (as above), and the other equals "to err," "go astray"; that `awon is derived from the latter, and consequently expresses the idea of error, deviation from the right path, rather than that of perversion (Driver, Notes on Sam, 135 note) Whichever etymology is adopted, in actual usage it has three meanings which almost imperceptibly pass into each other:

(1) iniquity,

(2) guilt of iniquity,

(3) punishment of iniquity.

Primarily, it denotes "not an action, but the character of an action" (Oehler), and is so distinguished from "sin" (chaTTa'th). Hence, we have the expression "the iniquity of my sin" (Psalm 32:5). Thus the meaning glides into that of "guilt," which might often take the place of "iniquity" as the translation of `awon (Genesis 15:16 Exodus 34:7 Jeremiah 2:22, etc.). From "guilt" it again passes into the meaning of "punishment of guilt," just as Latin piaculum may denote both guilt and its punishment. The transition is all the easier in Hebrew because of the Hebrew sense of the intimate relation of sin and suffering, e.g. Genesis 4:13, "My punishment is greater than I can bear"; which is obviously to be preferred to King James Version margin, the Revised Version, margin "Mine iniquity is greater than can be forgiven," for Cain is not so much expressing sorrow for his sin, as complaining of the severity of his punishment; compare 2 Kings 7:9 (the Revised Version (British and American) "punishment," the Revised Version margin "iniquity"); Isaiah 5:18 (where for "iniquity" we might have "punishment of iniquity," as in Leviticus 26:41, 43, etc.); Isaiah 40:2 ("iniquity," the Revised Version margin "punishment"). The phrase "bear iniquity" is a standing expression for bearing its consequences, i.e. its penalty; generally of the sinner bearing the results of his own iniquity (Leviticus 17:16; Leviticus 20:17, 19 Numbers 14:34 Ezekiel 44:10, etc.), but sometimes of one bearing the iniquity of another vicariously, and so taking it away (e.g. Ezekiel 4:4; 18:19). Of special interest in the latter sense are the sufferings of the Servant of Yahweh, who shall "bear the iniquities" of the people (Isaiah 53:11; compare Isaiah 53:6).

Other words frequently translated "iniquity" are: 'awen, literally, "worthlessness," "vanity," hence, "naughtiness," "mischief" (47 times in the King James Version, especially in the phrase "workers of iniquity," Job 4:8 Psalm 5:5; Psalm 6:8 Proverbs 10:29, etc.); `awel and `awlah, literally, "perverseness" (Deuteronomy 32:4 Job 6:29 the King James Version, etc.).

In the New Testament "iniquity" stands for anomia equals properly, "the condition of one without law," "lawlessness" (so translated in 1 John 3:4, elsewhere "iniquity," e.g. Matthew 7:23), a word which frequently stood for `awon in the Septuagint; and adikia, literally, "unrighteousness" (e.g. Luke 13:27).

D. Miall Edwards

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) Gross injustice; unfairness; wickedness; sin; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.

2. (n.) An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.

3. (n.) A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.

Strong's Hebrew
5771. avon -- iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity
... avon or avon. 5772 >>. iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Transliteration:
avon or avon Phonetic Spelling: (aw-vone') Short Definition: iniquity. ...
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5753b. avah -- to commit iniquity, do wrong
... << 5753a, 5753b. avah. 5754 >>. to commit iniquity, do wrong. Transliteration:
avah Short Definition: iniquity. Word Origin denominative ...
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5758. avayah -- iniquity
... << 5757, 5758. avayah. 5759 >>. iniquity. Transliteration: avayah Phonetic
Spelling: (iv-yaw') Short Definition: iniquities. ... iniquity. ...
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5932. alvah -- iniquity
... alvah. 5933 >>. iniquity. Transliteration: alvah Phonetic Spelling: (al-vaw') Short
Definition: iniquity. ... iniquity For evel; moral perverseness -- iniquity. ...
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1007b. Beth Aven -- "house of iniquity," a place in Benjamin
Beth Aven. << 1007a, 1007b. Beth Aven. 1008 >>. "house of iniquity," a place in
Benjamin. Transliteration: Beth Aven Short Definition: Beth-aven. ...
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5766. evel -- injustice, unrighteousness
... injustice, unrighteousness. Transliteration: evel or avel or avlah or olah or
olah Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-vel) Short Definition: iniquity. ...
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205. aven -- trouble, sorrow, wickedness
... << 204, 205. aven. 206 >>. trouble, sorrow, wickedness. Transliteration: aven
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-ven') Short Definition: iniquity. ...
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1942. havvah -- desire, chasm, destruction
... greed (1). calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous thing, naughtiness, naughty,
perverse thing,. From hava' (in the sense of eagerly ...
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5999. amal -- trouble, labor, toil
... grievance, iniquity, labor, mischief, misery, painful, perverseness, sorrow,.
From amal; toil, ie Wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. ...
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7562. resha -- wickedness
... iniquity, wickedness. From rasha'; a wrong (especially moral) -- iniquity,
wicked(-ness). see HEBREW rasha'. << 7561, 7562. resha. 7563 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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