אָשָׁם asham

Hebrew word for “guilt (offering)” · Strong’s H817 · used 46 times in 41 verses

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Meaning

1) guilt, offense, guiltiness;

How it is translated

Glosses given for asham in context, with how often each is used:

• guilt offering 38
• guilt 3
• compensation 3
• like the guilt offering 1
• guilts 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 14 (8), Leviticus 5 (6), Leviticus 7 (5), 1 Samuel 6 (4), Leviticus 6 (2), Leviticus 19 (2), Numbers 5 (2), Genesis 26 (1), Numbers 6 (1), Numbers 18 (1)

Forms

• האשׁם 15
• אשׁם 12
• אשׁמו 6
• לאשׁם 5
• והאשׁם 3
• וכאשׁם 1
• כאשׁם 1
• ולאשׁם 1
• אשׁמם 1
• באשׁמיו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with asham more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 18
• חַטָּאת chattat “sin” 14
• כִּפֶּר kipher “to atone” 7
• אַיִל ayil “ram” 7
• כֶּבֶשׂ keves “lamb” 6
• תְּנוּךְ tenukh “lobe” 4
• בֹּהֶן bohen “thumb/big toe” 4
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 7
• מִנְחָה minchah “offering” 6
• יְמָנִי yemani “right” 4
• לֹג log “log” 3
• שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 5

Key verses

The verses using asham that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 5:6 — And 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…
• Leviticus 5:7 — And 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…
• Leviticus 5:15 — If 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…
• Leviticus 5:16 — And 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…
• Leviticus 7:1 — Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
• Leviticus 7:2 — In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
• Numbers 18:9 — This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs,…
• 1 Samuel 6:17 — And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath…
• Isaiah 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his…
• Jeremiah 51:5 — For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
• Ezekiel 40:39 — And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the…
• Ezekiel 42:13 — Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.