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Glossary Term

Risk: Medium
Approved rendering
αμαρτία
Transliteration
amartía
Rejected alternatives
αμαρτία με την καθημερινή, εξασθενημένη έννοια του 'κρίμα' (π.χ. 'τι αμαρτία να πεταχτεί το φαγητό')

Sin

Moral transgression before a personal God. Modern Greek colloquially uses ‘αμαρτία’ in a weakened idiomatic sense close to English ‘what a shame/pity’ (e.g. about wasted food), which risks under-weighting Romans’ argument about sin’s seriousness if that idiomatic register bleeds into translated teaching material.

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