Guilty
אָשֵׁםStrong’s H0818ashem (a-shem)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashem is the Hebrew word usually translated “guilty” and “like a guilty”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.”
Meaning
- Guilty, faulty (and obliged to offer a guilt-offering)
How it's translated
- guilty 1
- like a guilty 1
- and guilty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Ezra 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 14:13And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
- Ezra 10:19And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
Hebrew dictionary
אָשֵׁם ashem · guilty
guilty, faulty (and obliged to offer a guilt-offering)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “guilty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GUILT'Y, adjective
gilt'y. Criminal; having knowingly committed a crime or offense, or having violated a law by an overt act or by neglect, and by that act or neglect, being liable to punishment; not innocent. It may be followed by of; as, to be guilty of theft or arson.
- Wicked; corrupt; sinful; as a guilty world.
- Conscious.
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.