אָשֵׁם
ashem · guilty
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H818 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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ashem (אָשֵׁם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “guilty”.
How to say it
a·shem
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
- Having done wrong and being responsible for it.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- and, being guilty ×1
- are guilty ×1
- like one guilty ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 42:21
They said to one another, “Indeed we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
- 2 Samuel 14:13
The woman said, “Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of Elohim? For in speaking this word, the king is like one guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.
- Ezra 10:19
And they gave their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.