Fault
FAULT
A slight defect or crime which subjects a person to blame, but not to punishment; a deviation from, or transgression of a rule in some trifling circumstance.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
Fault
folt (, hata’; , aita, , memphomai): Implies defect, of less moral weight than crime or sin. It is the translation of hata’, error, failure, sin (Exo 5:16); of het’, same meaning (Gen 41:9, I do remember my faults this day); of awon, perversity, iniquity (2Sa 3:8; Psa 59:4); of rishah, wrongness, wickedness (Deu 25:2, the Revised Version (British and American) wickedness); of shehath (Aramaic) corruption (Dan 6:4 twice); me’umah, anything (1Sa 29:3, no fault in him, literally, not anything); of aitia, cause, case, guilt, (Joh 18:38; Joh 19:4, Joh 19:6; Pilate of Jesus, I find no fault in him, the Revised Version (British and American) no crime; the same word is rendered accusation, i.e. ‘legal cause for prosecution,’ Mat 27:37; Mar 15:26; compare Act 25:18, Act 25:27); of ation, same meaning (Luk 23:4, Luk 23:14; Luk 23:22, aition thanatou cause of death); of hettema, a worse condition, defect (1Co 6:7, the Revised Version (British and American) a defect, margin a loss to you); of paraptoma, a falling aside (Gal 6:1, If a man be overtaken in fault, the Revised Version (British and American) in any trespass, margin by; Jam 5:16, Confess your faults one to another, the Revised Version (British and American) Confess therefore your sins one to another); hamartano, to miss, err, sin, is translated your faults (1Pe 2:20 the Revised Version (British and American), when ye sin); memphomai, to blame, is translated to find fault (Mar 7:2 omitted the Revised Version (British and American); Rom 9:19; Heb 8:8); elegcho, to convict, to tell one’s fault (Mat 18:15, the Revised Version (British and American) show him his fault); amomos, without blemish, spotless, is translated without fault (Rev 14:5, the Revised Version (British and American) without blemish, faultless; Jud 1:24, able to present you faultless, the Revised Version (British and American) without blemish); amemptos, blameless, without reproach (Heb 8:7, for if that first covenant had been faultless). Faulty is the translation of ‘ashem, guilty (2Sa 14:13, as one which is faulty, the Revised Version (British and American) guilty); of ‘asham, to be or become guilty (Hos 10:2, Revised Version guilty).