sin

transgression against religious commandments or precepts
Intangible religious_concept Q60227
sin
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sin

Summary

sin is a religious concept[1]. sin ranks in the top 8% of religious_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (986 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • sin's instance of is recorded as religious concept[3].
  • sin is a type of intentional human activity[4].
  • sin is a type of wrongdoing[5].
  • sin is a type of transgression[6].
  • sin is a type of religious concept[7].
  • sin's Commons category is recorded as Sins[8].
  • sin is the opposite of virtue[9].
  • sin comprises Islamic views on sin[10].
  • sin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sin[11].
  • sin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sins[12].
  • sin's facet of is recorded as divine law[13].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[14].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[15].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[17].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Red Blue Translator[20].
  • sin's described by source is recorded as Book of Genesis[21].
  • sin's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/tags/sin[22].
  • sin's different from is recorded as Q15962815[23].
  • sin's different from is recorded as Sin[24].
  • sin's studied by is recorded as hamartiology[25].
  • sin's practiced by is recorded as sinner[26].
  • sin's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27].

Body

Definition and Type

sin's instance of is recorded as religious concept[3]. Recorded subclass of include intentional human activity[4], wrongdoing[5], transgression[6], and religious concept[7]. sin is the opposite of virtue[9].

Use and Application

sin comprises Islamic views on sin[10].

Influence

Things named for sin include SiN[28], a video game[29] and Sin City[30], a film production company[31], in United States[32], headquartered in California[33].

Why It Matters

sin ranks in the top 8% of religious_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (986 views/month).[2] sin has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] sin is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for sin include SiN[28], a video game[29] and Sin City[30], a film production company[31], in United States[32], headquartered in California[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Genesis 2:17. kremlin.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . allsides.com. allsides.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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