sin
IPA: sˈɪn
noun
- (theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A flaw or mistake.
- (sports) sin bin
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian mythology) The god of the moon.
- A surname from Chinese.
- A desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, situated between Elim and Mount Sinai.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”) [A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.]
- Abbreviation of Sinaloa, A state of Mexico. [A state of Mexico.]
- (Canada) Initialism of social insurance number, an identification number issued by the government of Canada. [(Canada) A nine-digit number issued by the government of Canada to citizens, permanent residents, and some categories of temporary residents, for official identification in the provision of government services and income taxation. Abbreviation: SIN.]
verb
- (intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.
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Examples of "sin" in Sentences
- The mind is defiled with sin.
- A smidgen of sin is unexceptional.
- Child maltreat is one of the sins.
- You can commit the sin of apostasy.
- The rest of the Sins are exorcised.
- The essentialness of the crime was sin.
- It is impossible for God to commit a sin.
- What must a man do to commit the unpardonable sin
- It is not true that men love and commit sin _as sin_.
- It is impossible for God to commit a sin. He is the Lawgiver
- And sin is _sin_ -- it is rebellion against the King of Heaven.
- Each venial sin that one commits adds to the penance that one must do.
- In the second place, we see from the subject, that _thoughtlessness in sin will never excuse sin_.
- _Oh! this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold -- Yet now, if than wilt forgive their sin_
- 'Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of _sin_;' the revised version gives, 'Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of
- The sin of thoughtlessness shall be beaten with fewer stripes than the sin of deliberation, -- but it shall be _beaten_, and therefore it is _sin_.
- The common idea, then, is, that the justice of God consists in punishing sin: it is in the hope of giving a larger idea of the justice of God in punishing sin that I ask, '_Why is God bound to punish sin_?'
- I know all about Nancy, and her first husband and how he left her, and she thought he was dead, and married a good man, and when that worthless devil came back she thought she was living in sin with that good man -- in _sin_!
- Lastly, and above all, set under the feet of the statue of Christ Himself, are the lion and dragon; the images of Carnal sin, or _Human sin_, as distinguished from the Spiritual and Intellectual sin of Pride, by which the angels also fell.
- Nobbs did not know at that time, though he learned it afterwards, that safety from the drink-sin -- as from all other sin -- lies not in strong-man resolutions, or Temperance pledges, though both are useful aids, but in Jesus, the Saviour _from sin_.
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