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# שְׁגָגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7684

**sin of error** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sin of error [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7684/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁגָגָה: n.f. sin of error, inadvertence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7684/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sin of error, inadvertence;—abs. שׁ׳ Nu 15:25 +; sf. שִׁגְגָתוֹ Lv 5:18; שִׁגְגָתָם Nu 15:25;—error (opp. sins of intention, or בְּיָד רָמָה) only P Ec: Nu 15:25 = Ec 5:5, cf. Ec 10:5; על שׁ׳ Lv 5:18 Nu 15:25; חטא בִּשׁ׳ Lv 4:2, 22, 27; 5:15; Nu 15:27, 28 + (vb. om.) v 26; עשׂה בִשׁ׳ Lv 4:22; Nu 15:29 + (לִשׁ׳) v 24; אכל קֹדֶשׁ בִּשׁ׳ Lv 22:14; מַכֵּה־נֶפֶשׁ בִּשׁ׳ of unintended killing Nu 35:11, 15 = Jos 20:3, 9 (‖ in D בִּבְלִי־דַעַת).—1 S 14:24 v. שׁגה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: inadvertence (16); \[was\] inadvertence (2); an inadvertence (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 15:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.15.27/#tree)

וְאִם־נֶ֥פֶשׁ אַחַ֖ת תֶּחֱטָ֣א בִשְׁגָגָ֑ה וְהִקְרִ֛יבָה עֵ֥ז בַּת־שְׁנָתָ֖הּ לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* and if a.person one it.will.sin by inadvertence and it.will.bring.near a.female.goat a.daughter its.year her to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.

[Ecclesiastes 10:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.5/#tree)

יֵ֣שׁ רָעָ֔ה רָאִ֖יתִי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ כִּשְׁגָגָ֕ה שֶׁיֹּצָ֖א מִלִּפְנֵ֥י הַשַּׁלִּֽיט׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] an.evil \[which\].I.have.seen under the sun like an.inadvertence which.\[is\] going.forth from before the ruler

*JPS 1917:* There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which proceedeth from a ruler:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7684.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7684/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).