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ἁμαρτ-ία

amartia · ἡ

a failure, fault

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 84 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἁμαρτ-ία · hamart-ia — LSJ

a failure, fault, error

a failure, fault, τῶνδʼ ἁ. δόμων A. Ag. 1197, etc.; οὐ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίᾳ χρῆσθαι Antipho 4.3.4; ἁ. δόξης error of judgement, Th. 1.32.

2 guilt, sin

in Philos. and Religion, guilt, sin, Pl. Lg. 660c, al., Arist. EN 1148a3, al., LXX Ge. 18.20, al., Ev.Jo. 8.46, al.

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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