Harm
אָסוֹןStrong’s H0611ason (a-son)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ason is the Hebrew word usually translated “harm”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.”
Meaning
- Evil, mischief, harm, hurt
How it's translated
- harm 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Exodus 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 42:38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Genesis 44:29And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Exodus 21:22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
- Exodus 21:23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Hebrew dictionary
אָסוֹן ason · harm
evil, mischief, harm, hurt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “harm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
H'ARM, noun
- Injury; hurt; damage; detriment.“Do thyself no harm” Acts 16:28“He shall make amends for the harm he hath done in the holy thing” Leviticus 5:16
- Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness; a popular sense of the word.
All definitions and other forms of “harm”
H'ARM, verb transitive
To hurt; to injure; to damage; to impair soundness of body, either animal or vegetable.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.