All 9 Uses
transgress
in
The Book of Job
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- 7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity?†
Chpt 6-10transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- 8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 8:6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.†
Chpt 6-10
- make me to know my transgression and my sin.†
Chpt 11-15 *
- 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.†
Chpt 11-15
- 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?†
Chpt 31-35transgressions = acts that violate rules, promises, or social norms
- 33:8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, 33:9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.†
Chpt 31-35transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- my wound is incurable without transgression.†
Chpt 31-35
- or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?†
Chpt 31-35transgressions = acts that violate rules, promises, or social norms
- 36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; 36:9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.†
Chpt 36-42
Definitions:
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(1)
(transgress) to violate a rule, promise, or social norm
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(2)
(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."