Guiltiness
אַשְׁמָהStrong’s H0819ashmah (ash-mah)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “guilt”, “guilt of” and “guilt his”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.”
Meaning
- Guiltiness, guilt, offense, sin, wrong-doingdoing wrong, committing a trespass or offense · becoming guilty, guilt · bringing a guilt-offering
How it's translated
- guilt 5
- to guilt of 2
- guilt his 1
- to guilt 1
- in guilt their 1
- guilt our 1
- and guilt our 1
- in guilt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 6
- Leviticus 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Amos 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 6:5Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
- Leviticus 6:7And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
- Leviticus 22:16Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
- 1 Chronicles 21:3And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
- 2 Chronicles 24:18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
- 2 Chronicles 28:10And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
Hebrew dictionary
אַשְׁמָה ashmah · guiltiness
1) guiltiness, guilt, offense, sin, wrong-doing 1a) doing wrong, committing a trespass or offense 1b) becoming guilty, guilt 1c) bringing a guilt-offering
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “guiltiness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GUILT'INESS, noun
The state of being guilty; wickedness; criminality; guilt.
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.