Metaph. a sly and crafty man: Lk. xiii. 32; (in the same sense often in the Grk. writ., as Solon in Plut. Sol. 30, 2; Pind. Pyth. 2, 141; Plut. Sulla 28, 5).*
ἅλωσις, -εως, ἡ, (ἁλόω, ἁλίσκομαι to be caught), a catching, capture: 2 Pet. ii. 12 εἰς ἅλωσιν to be taken, [some would here take the word actively: to take]. (Fr. Pind. and Hdt. down.) *
ἅμα [Skr. sa, sama; Eng. same; Lat. simul; Germ. sammt, etc.; Curtius § 449; Vaniček p. 972. Fr. Hom. down]; 1. adv., at the same time, at once, together: Acts xxiv. 26; xxvii. 40; Col. iv. 3; 1 Tim. v. 13; Philem. 22; all to a man, every one, Ro. iii. 12. 2. prep. [W. 470 (439)], together with, with dat.: Mt. xiii. 29. ἅμα πρωΐ early in the morning: Mt. xx. 1, (in Grk. writ. ἅμα τῷ ἡλίῳ, ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ). In 1 Th. iv. 17 and v. 10, where ἅμα is foll. by σύν, ἅμα is an adv. (at the same time) and must be joined to the verb.*
[Syn. ἅμα, ὁμοῦ: the distinction given by Ammonius (de diff. voc. s. v.) et al., that ἅμα is temporal, ὁμοῦ local, seems to hold in the main; yet see Ro. iii. 12, and cf. Hesych. s. v.]
ἀμαθής, -ές, gen. -οῦς, (μανθάνω, whence ἔμαθον, τὸ μάθος, cf. ἀληθήν), unlearned, ignorant: 2 Pet. iii. 16. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. down.)*
ἀμαράντινος, -ον, (fr. ἀμάραντος, as ῥόδινος made of roses, fr. ῥόδον a rose; cf. ἀκάνθινος), composed of amaranth (a flower, so called because it never withers or fades, and when plucked off revives if moistened with water; hence it is a symbol of perpetuity and immortality, [see Paradise Lost iii. 353 sqq.]; Plin. h. n. 21 (15), 23 [al. 47]): στέφανος, 1 Pet. v. 4. (Found besides only in Philostr. her. 19, p. 741; [and (conjecturally) in Boeckh, Corp. Inscrr. 155, 39, c. B. C. 340].)*
ἀμάραντος, -ον, (fr. μαραίνω; cf. ἀμίαντος, ἄφαντος, etc.), not fading away, unfading, perennial; Vulg. immarcescibilis; (hence the name of the flower, [Diosc. 4, 57, al.]; see ἀμαράντινος): 1 Pet. i. 4. Found elsewhere only in Sap. vi. 13; [ζωὴ ἀμαρ. Sibyl. 8, 411; Boeckh, Corp. Inscrr. ii. p. 1124, no. 2942 c, 4; Lcian. Dom. c. 9].*
ἀμαρτάνω; fut. ἁμαρτήσω (Mt. xviii. 21; Ro. vi. 15; in the latter pass. L T Tr WH give ἁμαρτήσωμεν for R G ἁμαρτήσομεν), in class. Grk. ἁμαρτήσομαι; 1 aor. (later) ἡμάρτησα, Mt. xviii. 15; Ro. v. 14, 16 (cf. W. 82 (79); B. 54 (47)); 2 aor. ἥμαρτον; pf. ἡμάρτηκα: (acc. to a conjecture of Bttm., Lexil. i. p. 137, fr. α priv. and μείρω, μείρομαι, μέρος, prop. to be without a share in, sc. the mark); prop. to miss the mark, (Hom. Il. 8, 311, etc.; with gen. of the thing missed, Hom. Il. 10, 372; 4, 491; τοῦ σκοποῦ, Plat. Hipp. min. p. 375 a.; τῆς ὁδοῦ, Arstph. Plut. 961, al.); then to err, be mistaken; lastly to miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honor, to do or go wrong. [“Even the Sept., although the Hebr. חָטָא also means primarily to miss, endeavor to reserve ἁμαρτ. exclusively for the idea of sin; and where the Hebr. signifies to miss one’s aim in the literal sense, they avail themselves of expressive compounds, in particular ἐξαμαρτάνειν, Judg. xx. 16.” Zezschwitz, Profan-graec. u. bibl. Sprachgeist, p. 63 sq.] In the N. T. to wander from the law of God, violate God’s law, sin; a. absol.: Mt. xxvii. 4; Jn. v. 14; viii. 11; ix. 2 sq.; 1 Jn. i. 10; ii. 1; iii. 6, 8 sq.; v. 18; Ro. ii. 12; iii. 23; v. 12, 14, 16; vi. 15; 1 Co. vii. 28, 36; xv. 34; Eph. iv. 26; 1 Tim. v. 20; Tit. iii. 11; Heb. iii. 17; x. 26 (ἑκουσίως) ; [2 Pet. ii. 4]; of the violation of civil laws, which Christians regard as also the transgression of divine law, 1 Pet. ii. 20. b. ἁμαρτάνειν ἁμαρτίαν to commit (lit. sin) a sin, 1 Jn. v. 16, (μεγάλην ἁμαρτίαν, Ex. xxxii. 30 sq. Hebr. חָטָא חֲטָאָה; αἰσχρὰν ἁμ. Soph. Phil. 1249; μεγάλα ἁμαρτήματα ἁμαρτάνειν, Plat. Phaedo p. 113 e.); cf. ἀγαπάω, sub fin. ἁμαρτάνειν εἴς τινα [B. 173 (150); W. 233 (219)]: Mt. xviii. 15 (L T WH om. Tr mrg. br. εἰς σέ), 21; Lk. xv. 18, 21; xvii. 3 Rec., 4; 1 Co. viii. 12; τὶ εἰς Καίσαρα, Acts xxv. 8; εἰς τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα, 1 Co. vi. 18, (εἰς αὑτούς τε καὶ εἰς ἄλλους, Plat. rep. 3, p. 396 a.; εἷς τὸ θεῖον, Plat. Phaedr. p. 242 c.; εἰς θεούς, Xen. Hell. 1, 7, 19, etc.; [cf. ἁμ. κυρίῳ θεῷ, Bar. i. 13; ii. 5]); Hebraistically, ἐνώπιόν (לִפְנֵי) τινος [B. § 146, 1] in the presence of, before any one, the one wronged by the sinful act being, as it were, present and looking on: Lk. xv. 18, 21, (1 S. vii. 6; Tob. iii. 3, etc.; [cf. ἔναντι κυρίου, Bar. i. 17]). [For reff. see ἁμαρτία. Comp.: προ-αμαρτάνω.]*
ἀμάρτημα, -τος, τό, (fr. ἁμαρτέω i. q. ἁμαρτάνω, cf. ἀδίκημα, ἀλίσγημα), a sin, evil deed, [“Differunt ἡ ἁμαρτία et τὸ ἁμάρτημα ut Latinorum peccat u s et peccat u m. Nam τὸ ἁμάρτημα et peccatum proprie malum facinus indicant; contra ἡ ἁμαρτία et peccatus primum peccationem, τὸ peccare, deinde peccatum, rem consequentem, valent.” Fritzsche ; see ἁμαρτία, fin. ; cf. also Trench § lxvi.]: Mk. iii. 28, and (L T Tr txt. WH) 29; iv. 12 (where G T Tr txt. WH om. L Tr mrg. br. τὰ ἁμαρτ.); Ro. iii. 25; 1 Co. vi. 18; 2 Pet. i. 9 (R [L WH txt. Tr mrg.] ἁμαρτιῶν). In prof. auth. fr. Soph. and Thuc. down; [of bodily defects, Plato, Gorg. 479 a.; ἁμ. μνημονικόν, Cic. ad Att. 13, 21; ἁμ. γραφικόν, Polyb. 34, 3, 11; ὅταν μὲν παραλόγως ἡ βλάβη γένηται, ἀτύχημα· ὅταν δὲ μὴ παραλόγως, ἄνευ δὲ κακίας, ἁμάρτημα· ὅταν δὲ εἰδὼς μὲν μὴ προβουλεύσας δέ, ἀδίκημα, Aristot. eth. Nic. 5, 10 p. 1135b, 16 sq.].*
ἀμαρτία, -ας, ἡ, (fr. 2 aor. ἁμαρτεῖν, as ἀποτυχία fr. ἀποτυχεῖν), a failing to hit the mark (see ἁμαρτάνω). In Grk. writ. (fr. Aeschyl. and Thuc. down). 1st, an error of the understanding (cf. Ackermann, Das Christl. im Plato, p. 59 Anm. 3 [Eng. trans. (S. R. Asbury, 1861) p. 57 n. 99]). 2d, a bad action, evil deed. In the N. T. always in an ethical sense, and 1. equiv. to τὸ ἅμαρτάνειν a sinning, whether it occurs by omission or commission, in thought and feeling or in speech and action (cf. Cic. de fin. 3, 9): Ro. v. 12 sq. 20; ὑφ’ ἁμαρτίαν εἶναι held down in sin, Ro. iii. 9; ἐπιμένειν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, Ro. vi. 1; ἀποθνήσκειν τῇ ἁμ. and ζῆν ἐν αὐτῇ, Ro. vi. 2; τὴν ἁμ. γινώσκειν, Ro. vii. 7; 2 Co. v. 21; νεκρὸς τῇ ἁμ.) Ro. vi. 11; περὶ ἁμαρτίας to break the power of sin, Ro. viii. 3 [cf. Mey.]; σῶμα τῆς ἁμ. the body as the instrument of sin, Ro. vi. 6; ἀπάτη τῆς ἁμ. the craft by which sin is accustomed to deceive, Heb. iii. 13; ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμ. [ἀνομίας T Tr txt. WH txt.] the man so possessed by sin that he seems unable to exist without it, the man utterly given up
