Approach: Using pictures to understand picturesque speech.

Hermeneutic objective: Learning an approach to understanding figures of speech.

Theological objective: Sin is often portrayed as missing the path or mark.

The Hebrew picture is of mistakenly walking off the path. This image helps one understand sin in the context of intentional or unintentional mistake.

The Greek picture is of a thrown spear missing the target. This image helps one understand sin in the context of how good one walks with God.