Both Uses
transgress
in
Exodus
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- 23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.†
Chpt 21-25 *transgressions = acts that violate rules, promises, or social norms
- 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 34:7 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.†
Chpt 30-35transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
Definitions:
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(1)
(transgress) to violate a rule, promise, or social norm
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and archaically), transgress can mean: "spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline" as in "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island."