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• Hebrew: פַּשְׁעָה (pashʿāh) or עֲו‍ֹן (ʿāwōn) – the closest Old Testament equivalents
  • pashʿāh (פַּשְׁעָה): rebellion, transgression, breaking away from just authority
  • ʿāwōn (עֲו‍ֹן): iniquity, guilt, perversion of God’s order (often linked to willful violation of divine law)
• Greek: anomia (ἀνομία) – lawlessness, contempt and violation of law, wickedness (1 John 3:4)
• Directly equated with sin: "sin is lawlessness"
• Contrasted with doing what is right (1 John 3:7) and loving one another (1 John 3:11).

Related words

• Lawless
• Sin
• Transgression
• Righteous
• Righteousness
• Unrighteous
• Unrighteousness

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Connections

• Matthew 7:23 Jesus says to workers of "lawlessness" [ἀνομίαν]: "I never knew you; depart from me"
• Matthew 24:12 "Because of the increase of lawlessness [ἀνομίαν], the love of many will grow cold"
• 2 Thessalonians 2:3,7 the "man of lawlessness" [ἀνομίας] and "mystery of lawlessness"
• 1 John 3:8 The Devill has been sinning (i.e., acting in lawlessness) from the beginning