asham · be guilty

What it means

asham (אָשַׁם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be guilty”.

Bear the guilt of something, and so suffer its punishment.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To bear the responsibility for a wrong committed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• guilty ×28
• incur guilt ×2
• he has certainly ×1
• incurred guilt ×1
• suffer punishment ×1
• they acknowledge their guilt ×1
• they became ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×11
• Numbers×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×5
• Joel×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Leviticus 4:13

  And if the whole community of Israel errs and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and they become guilty,

• Leviticus 4:22

  When a chief sins and does inadvertently any one of all the commandments of YHWH his Elohim concerning things that should not be done, and becomes guilty,

• Leviticus 4:27

  And if any one person of the people of the land sins inadvertently by doing any one of the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and becomes guilty,

• Leviticus 5:2

  Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of an unclean swarming thing, and it is hidden from him, he has become unclean and guilty.

• Leviticus 5:3

  Or if he touches human uncleanness, any uncleanness of his by which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he will be guilty.

• Leviticus 5:4

  Or if a person swears, speaking rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in any matter that a man may speak rashly in an oath, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he will be guilty in one of these.

• Leviticus 5:5

  When he becomes guilty in one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned.

• Leviticus 5:17

  And if a person sins and does any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, though he did not know it, he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 5:19

  It is a guilt offering; he has certainly become guilty before YHWH.”

• Leviticus 6:4

  when he has sinned and is guilty, he shall restore what he robbed or what he gained by exploitation or the deposit that was deposited with him or the lost thing that he found,

• Numbers 5:6

  “Speak to the sons of Israel: When a man or a woman commits any of the sins of human beings, acting unfaithfully against YHWH, and that person becomes guilty,

• Numbers 5:7

  they shall confess their sin that they have committed; and he shall restore in full what he is guilty of, and add to it a fifth of it, and give it to the one against whom he became guilty.

• Judges 21:22

  And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to quarrel with us, that we will say to them, ‘Show us favor regarding them, for we did not take for each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them; otherwise now you would be guilty.’”

• 2 Chronicles 19:10

  In every dispute that comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and rules, you shall warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before YHWH and wrath come on you and on your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.

• Psalms 5:10

  Declare them guilty, Elohim; let them fall by their designs. In the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

• Psalms 34:21

  Evil will bring death to the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be guilty.

• Psalms 34:22

  YHWH ransoms the soul of his servants, and none of all who take refuge in him will be guilty.

• Proverbs 30:10

  Do not slander a slave to his master, lest he curse you and you be guilty.

• Isaiah 24:6

  Therefore a curse devours the earth, and those who dwell in it are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few mortals are left.

• Jeremiah 2:3

  Israel was holiness to YHWH, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured it incurred guilt; evil came upon them, declares YHWH.’”

• Jeremiah 50:7

  All who found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, “We are not guilty, because they have sinned against YHWH, the dwelling of righteousness, and the hope of their fathers, YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 6:6

  In all your dwelling places the cities will be laid waste, and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and be guilty, and your idols will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.

• Ezekiel 22:4

  By your blood that you have shed you have become guilty, and by your idols that you have made you have become unclean; and you have brought near your days and you have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

• Ezekiel 25:12

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because Edom acted by taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and they became very guilty and took vengeance on them,

• Hosea 4:15

  Though you, Israel, prostitute yourself, let not Judah become guilty; and do not come to Gilgal, and do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As YHWH lives.”

• Hosea 5:15

  I will go away, I will return to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will seek me earnestly.

• Hosea 10:2

  Their heart is divided; now they will be found guilty; he will break the neck of their altars, he will destroy their standing stones.

• Hosea 13:1

  When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; but he became guilty through Baal and died.

• Hosea 13:16

  Samaria will be held guilty, for she has rebelled against her Elohim; by the sword they will fall; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

• Joel 1:18

  How the livestock groan! The herds of cattle wander confused, for there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.

• Habakkuk 1:11

  Then he sweeps by like the wind and passes on, and he becomes guilty, this one whose strength is his god.”

• Zechariah 11:5

  whose buyers kill them and are not held guilty; and their sellers say, ‘Blessed be YHWH, and I have become rich’; and their shepherds do not have compassion on them.

And 3 more times.