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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Transgress

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Transgress

TRANSGRESS', verb transitive [Latin transgressus, transgredior; trans and gradior, to pass.]

1. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.

2. In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral. To transgress a divine law, is sin. Legislators should not transgress laws of their own making.

TRANSGRESS', verb intransitive To offend by violating a law; to sin.

Chron 2.


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Transgressed

TRANSGRESS'ED, participle passive Overpassed; violated.


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Transgressing

TRANSGRESS'ING, participle present tense Passing beyond; surpassing; violating; sinning.


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Transgression

TRANSGRES'SION, noun The act of passing over or beyond any law or rule of moral duty; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command.

He mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. Ezra 10:6.

Forgive thy people all their transgressions. 1 Kings 8:50.

1. Fault; offense; crime.


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Transgressional

TRANSGRES'SIONAL, adjective That violates a law or rule of duty.


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Transgressive

TRANSGRESS'IVE, adjective Faulty; culpable; apt to transgress.


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Transgressor

TRANSGRESS'OR, noun One who breaks a law or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.

The way of transgressors is hard. Proverbs 13:2.