Definitions for Sin

Sin sin

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IPA: /sɪn/

Sin is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in Sin (ins).

Definitions for Sin

noun

  1. transgression of divine law:
  2. any act regarded as such a transgression, especially a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle.
  3. any reprehensible or regrettable action, behavior, lapse, etc.; great fault or offense:
  4. the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
  5. the consonant sound represented by this letter.
  6. the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
  7. the Akkadian god of the moon: the counterpart of the Sumerian Nanna.

verb (used with object)

  1. to commit or perform sinfully:
  2. to bring, drive, etc., by sinning:

verb (used without object)

  1. to commit a sinful act.
  2. to offend against a principle, standard, etc.

Origin of Sin

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English syn(n) offense, misdeed; akin to German Sünde, Old Norse synd sin, Latin sōns guilty; (v.) derivative of the noun, replacing Middle English sin(

Examples for Sin

Do not let this great and disastrous fall sink you into lower depths of sin.

They were sick-and so were the purest of their brethren—with the plague of sin.

In March 2013 in Washington, D.C., Seth Bender got in the Uber he ordered and shortly thereafter committed the sin of burping.

Or is there really no sin but in thought, and are our sleeping thoughts incapable of sin?

My understanding was that according to most Christian beliefs, being trans or gay was a sin, cut and dry.

Essentially, Pope Francis is urging Christians to “love the sinner, but hate the sin.”

sin brings its punishment, and it is hard work, bearing its burden!

Another bishop was apparently disheartened to find the word “sin” appear only once in the entire document.

Never before had he seen his sin in the light in which it was now revealed by God's Word.

Hayward lives with her boyfriend, “so I am dealing as a woman ‘living in sin,’” she says with a laugh.

Word Value for Sin
Scrable

3

Words with friends

4

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