This week we’re continuing our reflection on the Bible’s raw and honest portrait of the human condition. Faulty; culpable; apt to transgress.TRANSGRESS'ED, pp. a law, principle, or duty) is understood by the transgressor. Legislators should not transgress laws of their own making.TRANSGRESS'ING, ppr. Prophets like Amos often stood up and called out the breaking of trust that they saw in and around them. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.2.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral. To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.2. How does this idea resonate with you?In what way do you think betrayal of trust against another human is transgression against God?Let’s take a moment to reflect on our own experience of being betrayed or having someone break our trust. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.’” In this one verse, “sin,” “iniquity,” and “transgression” are all mentioned.
Ezra 10.Forgive thy people all their transgressions. Overpassed; violated.He mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. 1 Kings 8.TRANSGRESS', v.i. The exceeding of due bounds or limits. A violation of a law, principle, or duty. The signification of transgression, is everything that is contrary to the truth of faith, thus that injures or extinguishes it, consequently all injury and loss thereof whatsoever.
The human conscience is a gift from a good, holy God to show us our sins and to drive us to the Lord. Transgression. Learn more. —Psalm 138:2, KJV
Samson intentionally broke his Nazirite vow by touching a dead lion (Numbers 6:1–5; Judges 14:8–9) and allowing his hair to be cut (Judges 16:17); in doing so he was committing a transgression. And, transgression is a willful violation because the standard (i.e. transgression (trænzˈɡrɛʃən) n 1. ( Job 33:8-9) Source: A King James Dictionary. A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata. Define ‘transgress’ or ‘transgression’ as used in the Bible. However, upon closer examination, each word also carries a slightly different meaning.