The corpus record

ἁμαρτωλ-ός

amartolos

erroneous, erring, of bad character

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Where it lives

Psalmi Salomonis 34 · 71.47/10k
Jude 1 · 22.47/10k
Siracides 40 · 21.67/10k
Psalmi 69 · 20.18/10k
Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
1 Timothy 2 · 12.63/10k
James 2 · 11.7/10k
Luke 18 · 9.34/10k
Galatians 2 · 9.15/10k
Amos 2 · 6.5/10k
1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
Romans 4 · 5.7/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἁμαρτωλ-ός · hamartōl-os — LSJ

erroneous, erring

erroneous, ἁμαρτωλότερον Arist. EN 1109a33; erring, ἐν πᾶσιν Plu. Aud.poet. 2.25c.

2 of bad character, sinning against

of bad character, δοῦλοι Phld. Ir. p.73 W.: c. gen., sinning against, θεῶν Michel 547.31 (Telmessus):—ἁμαρτωλὴ γέρων, barbarism in Ar. Th. 1111. Adv. -ῶς Eup. 24D.

II sinner

Subst. ἁμαρτωλός, ὁ, sinner, LXX Ge. 13.13, al., Ev.Luc. 18.13, al.

In the wild

ἁμαρτωλότερον · hamartōloteron Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1109a (DIORISIS sentence 593)
ἁμαρτωλὸς · hamartōlos New Testament, 1 Peter 4.18 (DIORISIS sentence 85)
ἁμαρτωλοὺς · hamartōlous New Testament, 1 Timothy 1.15 (DIORISIS sentence 7)
ἁμαρτωλοῖς · hamartōlois New Testament, 1 Timothy 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 4)
ἁμαρτωλοί · hamartōloi New Testament, Galatians 2.15 (DIORISIS sentence 32)
ἁμαρτωλοί · hamartōloi New Testament, Galatians 2.17 (DIORISIS sentence 33)

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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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