H819 אַשְׁמָה (ʼashmâh) ash-maw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

guiltiness

Strong's Definition

guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of asin-offering

Derivation: feminine of H817 (אָשָׁם);

KJV Usage: offend, sin, (cause of) trespass(-ing, offering).

TWOT Reference: 180c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) guiltiness, guilt, offense, sin, wrong-doing

1a) doing wrong, committing a trespass or offense

1b) becoming guilty, guilt

1c) bringing a guilt-offering

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G52 G1651 G2250 G2434

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

אַשְׁמָה (ash.mah) — 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

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

אַשְׁמָה (H0819)

noun f · אשׁם

Guilty | ≈ אִוֶּלֶת · חַטָּאת · מַעֲשֶׂה רַע · עָוֹן

guilt = state of being responsible for an unlawful deed, that was committed either knowingly or unknowingly

LEV 4:3 · LEV 5:26 · LEV 22:16 · 1CH 21:3 · 2CH 24:18 · 2CH 28:10 · 2CH 28:13 · 2CH 28:13 · 2CH 28:13 · 2CH 33:23 · EZR 9:6 · EZR 9:7 · EZR 9:13 · EZR 9:15 · EZR 10:10 · EZR 10:19 · PSA 69:6 · AMO 8:14

Sacrifice

guilt offering, reparation offering = sacrifice brought to compensate for what the deity should have received, but what was not given

LEV 5:24

noun f

Names of Deities

Ashmah, Ashima, The Name = epitheth of deity, also known as Ashima; ► worshiped by people of Hamath who settled in Samaria (ABD)

AMO 8:14

¹ AMO 8:14 MT HOTTP-A NIV NJPS NJB [1] | RSV NRSV REB CEV [2] | GNT "idols"

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אַשְׁמָה n.f. wrong-doing, guiltiness doing wrong, committing a trespass of offence

becoming guilty

bringing a trespass-offering

base

Bible Occurrences (17)

4:3 6:5 6:7 22:16

21:3

24:18 28:10 28:13 33:23

9:6 9:7 9:13 9:15 10:10 10:19

69:5

8:14

Leviticus 4:3

If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish...... as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

Leviticus 6:5

or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full -, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner...... on the day [he acknowledges] his guilt.

Leviticus 6:7

In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything... he may have done to incur guilt.

Leviticus 22:16

by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

1 Chronicles 21:3

But Joab replied, May the LORD... multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

2 Chronicles 28:10

And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you... not also guilty before the LORD your God?

2 Chronicles 28:13

You must not bring the captives here, they said, for you are proposing to bring guilt upon us from the LORD and to add to our sins and our guilt. For our guilt is great, and fierce anger... is upon Israel.”