pasha · transgress, rebel

What it means

pasha (פָּשַׁע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “transgress, rebel”.

Transgress: to break with the authority one owes loyalty to; to rebel, to commit a serious offense. From this root comes "transgression."

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 rise up against a king.
2. To break with God and his law.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rebelled ×12
• have transgressed ×9
• transgressors ×8
• transgressed ×5
• transgress ×3
• offended ×1
• transgressing ×1
• transgression ×1
• transgressor ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×6
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×3
• Amos×2
• Zephaniah×1

• 1 Kings 8:50

  and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have transgressed against you; and grant them mercy before their captors, that they may have mercy on them;

• 1 Kings 12:19

  So Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day.

• 2 Kings 1:1

  Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

• 2 Kings 3:5

  And it happened, when Ahab died, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

• 2 Kings 3:7

  He went and sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to Moab for battle?” He said, “I will go up; I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

• 2 Kings 8:20

  In his days Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves.

• 2 Kings 8:22

  So Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah rebelled at that time.

• 2 Chronicles 10:19

  So Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day.

• 2 Chronicles 21:8

  In his days Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah and made a king over themselves.

• 2 Chronicles 21:10

  So Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah rebelled at that time from under his hand, because he had abandoned YHWH, Elohim of his fathers.

• Ezra 10:13

  But the people are many, and it is the time of rains, and there is no strength to stand outside; and the work is not for one day nor for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

• Psalms 37:38

  But transgressors are destroyed together; the future of the wicked is cut off.

• Psalms 51:13

  I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.

• Proverbs 18:19

  A brother offended is harder to win than a city of strength, and strife is like the bar of a citadel.

• Proverbs 28:21

  To recognize faces is not good, and for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

• Isaiah 1:2

  Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for YHWH has spoken: Children I have reared and brought up, but they have transgressed against me.

• Isaiah 1:28

  But the shattering of transgressors and sinners will come together, and those who abandon YHWH will be consumed.

• Isaiah 43:27

  Your first father sinned, and your interpreters transgressed against me.

• Isaiah 46:8

  Remember this, and stand firm; bring it back to heart, transgressors.

• Isaiah 48:8

  Neither did you hear, nor did you know, nor from long ago was your ear opened; for I knew that you would certainly deal treacherously, and ‘a transgressor from the womb’ you were called.

• Isaiah 53:12

  Therefore I will give him a portion with the many, and with the strong he will divide the spoil, because he poured out to death his soul, and with the transgressors he was counted; and he carried the sin of many, and for the transgressors he intercedes.

• Isaiah 59:13

  transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and rebellion, conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Isaiah 66:24

  And they will go out and see the corpses of the men who transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, and their fire will not be quenched; and they will be a horror to all flesh.”

• Jeremiah 2:8

  The priests did not say, ‘Where is YHWH?’ And those who handle the instruction did not know me, and the shepherds transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after what does not profit.

• Jeremiah 2:29

  Why do you contend with me? All of you have transgressed against me, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 3:13

  Only know your iniquity, that against YHWH your Elohim you have transgressed, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every leafy tree, and my voice you have not heeded, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 33:8

  And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.

• Lamentations 3:42

  We have transgressed and rebelled; you have not forgiven.

• Ezekiel 2:3

  And he said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.

• Ezekiel 18:31

  Cast away from you all your transgressions with which you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?

• Ezekiel 20:38

  And I will purge from among you the rebels and those who transgress against me; from the land where they reside as aliens I will bring them out, but into the soil of Israel they will not enter; and you will know that I am YHWH.

• Daniel 8:23

  And at the end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their full measure, there will stand up a king fierce of face and understanding riddles.

• Hosea 7:13

  Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have transgressed against me! And I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

• Hosea 8:1

  To your mouth the horn! Like an eagle one comes against the house of YHWH, because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law they have rebelled.

• Hosea 14:9

  Who is wise, and let him understand these things? Who is discerning, and let him know them? For the ways of YHWH are upright, and the righteous walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

• Amos 4:4

  Come to Bethel and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring every morning your sacrifices, every three days your tithes.

• Zephaniah 3:11

  On that day you will not be ashamed of all your deeds by which you transgressed against me; for then I will remove from your midst those who exult in your haughtiness, and you will not again exalt yourself on my holy mountain.

And 4 more times.