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sin´ẽr (חטּ×, hÌ£atÌ£tÌ£aÌ„; ἁμαÏτωλοÌÏ‚, hamartoÌ„loÌs, “devoted to sin,†“erring oneâ€): In the New Testament, in addition to its ordinary significance of one that sins (; ; , ; ; ), the term is applied to those who lived in disregard of ceremonial prescription (, ; ff; ; ); to those stained with certain definite vices or crimes, as the publicans (; ; ); to the heathen (; ; compare Tobit 13:6; 1 Macc 1:34; 2 Macc 2:48, 62); to the preeminently sinful (; , ; ; ; ). It was the Jewish term for a woman of ill-fame (; compare , where it is stated that such had come even to John's baptism also). For the general Biblical conception of the term, see SIN.