sin´ẽr (חטּא, ḥaṭṭā; ἁμαρτωλός, hamartōlós, “devoted to sin,” “erring one”): In the New Testament, in addition to its ordinary significance of one that sins ([Luk 5:8]; [Luk 13:2]; [Rom 5:8], [Rom 5:19]; [1Ti 1:15]; [Heb 7:26]), the term is applied to those who lived in disregard of ceremonial prescription ([Mat 9:10], [Mat 9:11]; [Mar 2:15] ff; [Luk 5:30]; [Gal 2:15]); to those stained with certain definite vices or crimes, as the publicans ([Luk 15:2]; [Luk 18:13]; [Luk 19:7]); to the heathen ([Mat 26:45]; [Gal 2:15]; compare Tobit 13:6; 1 Macc 1:34; 2 Macc 2:48, 62); to the preeminently sinful ([Mar 8:38]; [Joh 9:24], [Joh 9:31]; [Gal 2:17]; [1Ti 1:9]; [Jud 1:15]). It was the Jewish term for a woman of ill-fame ([Luk 7:37]; compare [Mat 21:32], where it is stated that such had come even to John’s baptism also). For the general Biblical conception of the term, see SIN.
