Guilt (offering)
אָשָׁםStrong’s H0817asham (a-sham)
Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Asham is the Hebrew word usually translated “guilt offering”, “guilt offering his” and “guilt”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.”
Meaning
- Guilt, offense, guiltinessoffense, trespass, fault · guilt, guiltiness · compensation (for offense) · trespass offering, guilt offering
How it's translated
- the guilt offering 13
- a guilt offering 8
- guilt offering his 5
- to a guilt offering 5
- guilt 3
- and the guilt offering 3
- the compensation 2
- and like the guilt offering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 23
- Numbers 4
- 1 Samuel 4
- Ezekiel 4
- Genesis 1
- 2 Kings 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 5:6And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
- Leviticus 5:7And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 5:15If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
- Leviticus 5:16And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 5:18And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 5:19It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
אָשָׁם asham · guilt (offering)
1) guilt, offense, guiltiness 1a) offense, trespass, fault 1b) guilt, guiltiness 1c) compensation (for offense) 1d) trespass offering, guilt offering
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “guilt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GUILT, noun
gilt.
- Criminality; that state of a moral agent which results from his actual commission of a crime or offense, knowing it to be a crime, or violation of law.
- Criminality in a political or civil view; exposure to forfeiture or other penalty.
- Crime; offense.
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.