To transgress
פָּשַׁעStrong’s H6586pasah (pa-sah)
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it rebelled”, “have rebelled” and “transgressed”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.”
Meaning
- To rebel, transgress, revolt(Qal) · (Niphal) to be rebelled against
How it's translated
- it rebelled 4
- they have rebelled 3
- they transgressed 2
- and they have rebelled 2
- and it has rebelled 2
- to transgress 2
- and transgressors 2
- transgressors 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- 2 Kings 5
- Jeremiah 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Hosea 3
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 8:50And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
- 1 Kings 12:19So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
- 2 Kings 1:1Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
- 2 Kings 3:5But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
- 2 Kings 3:7And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
- 2 Kings 8:20In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
All 37 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
פָּשַׁע pasah · to transgress
1) to rebel, transgress, revolt 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rebel, revolt 1a2) to transgress 1b) (Niphal) to be rebelled against
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “transgress” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRANSGRESS', verb intransitive
To offend by violating a law; to sin.
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.