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ἁμαρτωλός, ον Adj sinning, sinful, a sinner
Strong's Definition
from 264; sinful, i.e. a sinner
KJV Usage: sinful, sinner
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | ἁμαρτάνω
noun, m. | -οῦ | ἁμαρτάνω
88.295 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Sin, Wrongdoing, Guilt
sinner, outcast (derivative of ἁμαρτάνω ‘to sin,’ 88.289) a person who customarily sins In contexts such as MRK 2:17, MAT 9:10, LUK 15:2, etc., ἁμαρτωλός may refer to persons who were irreligious in the sense of having no concern for observing the details of the Law. Such people were often treated as social outcasts.
MAT 9:10 · MAT 9:11 · MAT 9:13 · MAT 11:19 · MAT 26:45 · MRK 2:15 · MRK 2:16 · MRK 2:16 · MRK 2:17 · LUK 5:8 · LUK 5:30 · LUK 5:32 · LUK 6:32 · LUK 6:33 · LUK 6:34 · LUK 6:34 · LUK 7:34 · LUK 7:37 · LUK 7:39 · LUK 13:2 · LUK 15:1 · LUK 15:2 · LUK 15:7 · LUK 15:10 · LUK 18:13 · LUK 19:7 · LUK 24:7 · JHN 9:24 · JHN 9:25 · JHN 9:31 · ROM 3:7 · ROM 5:8 · GAL 2:15 · GAL 2:17 · 1TI 1:9 · 1TI 1:15 · HEB 7:26 · HEB 12:3 · JAS 4:8 · JAS 5:20 · 1PE 4:18 · JUD 1:15
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἁμαρτωλός, -ov, (fr. the form ἁμάρτω, as φείδωλος from φείδομαι), devoted to sin, a (masc. or fem.) sinner. In the N. T. distinctions are so drawn that one is called ἁμαρτωλός who is a. not free from sin. In this sense all men are sinners; as, Mt. ix.13; Mk. 1.17; Lk. vy. 8, 32; xiii. 2; xviii. 13; Ro. iii. 7; v.[8],19; 1 Tim.i.15; Heb. vii. 306. ῬΌ. pre-eminently sinful, especially wicked; a. univ.: 1 Tim.i.9; Jude 15; Mk. viii. 38; Lk. vi. 82-34; vii. 37, 39; xv. 7,10; Jn. ix. 16, 24 sq. 31; Gal. ii. 17; Heb. xii. 3; Jas. iv.8; v.20; 1 Pet.iv.18; ἁμαρτία itself is called ἁμαρτωλός, Ro. vii. 13. β. spec., of men stained with certain definite vices or crimes, e. g. the tax-gatherers: Lk. xv. 2; xviii. 13; xix. 7; hence the combination τελῶναι καὶ ἁμαρτωλοί, Mt. ix. 10 sq.; xi. 19; Mk. ii. 15 sq.; Lk. v. 30; vii. 34; xv. 1. heathen, called by the Jews sinners κατ᾽ ἐξοχήν (1 Mace. i. 34; ii. 48, 62; Tob. xiii. 6): Mt. xxvi. 45 [?]; Mk. xiv. 41; Lk. xxiv. 7; Gal. ii. 15. (The word is found often in Sept., as the equiv. of NOM and pw, and in the O. T. Apocr.; very seldom in Grk. writ., as Aristot. eth. Nic. 2,9 p. 11099, 33; Plut. de audiend. poét. 7, p. 25 ¢.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἁμαρτωλός hamartōlos 47x
one who deviates from the path of virtue, a sinner, Mk. 2:17; depraved, Mk. 8:38; sinful, detestable, Rom. 7:13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἁμαρτωλός, -όν
(< ἁμαρτάνω), [in LXX chiefly for רשׁﬠ;]
sinful, a sinner: of all men, I Ti 1:15; of those especially wicked, I Ti 1:9, I Pe 4:18; p1., Mt 9:10-13 11:19 26:45, al. (v. MM, VGT, s.v.; Cremer, 102, 634)
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἁμαρτωλός appears in OGZS 55°° (B.c. 240) ἐὰν [δὲ] μὴ συντελῆι ὁ ἄρχων καὶ οἱ πολῖται τὴν [θυσί]αν κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτόν, ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἔστωσαν [θεῶ]ν πάντων, “sinners against all the gods.” Cf. also the common phrase in sepulchral epitaphs in the southwest of Asia Minor containing a threat against any one who shall desecrate the tomb, ἁμαρτωλὸς ἔστω θεοῖς (κατα)χθονίοις, “‘let him be as a sinner before the (sub)terranean gods”: see Deissmann ZAZ p. 115, who regards the genitive after ἁμαρτωλός as a possible ‘‘ provincialism of S.W. Asia Minor.” (See under @voxos.) He cites another occurrence, from the same locality, with the formula as in OG/S 55 (p. 116n.). Schlageter p. 24 adds /G III. 461 α. These instances are sufficient to prove the ‘‘ profane” use of the word, as Cremer (af. Deissmann x s.) admitted in his Appendix.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἁμαρτωλός (hamartōlos) — sinful. ἁμαρτωλ-ός, όν, erroneous, ἁμαρτωλότερον[Refs 4th c.BC+]; erring, ἐν πᾶσιν[Refs 1st c.AD+]
2. of bad character, δοῦλοι[Refs 1st c.BC+] W.: with genitive, sinning against, θεῶν[Refs] —ἁμαρτωλὴ γέρων, barbarism in [Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -ῶς[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. substantive ἁμαρτωλός, ὁ, sinner, [LXX+NT]