ashma · guilt

What it means

ashma (אַשְׁמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “guilt”.

The responsibility that remains for having done wrong; also an offense.

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. What weighs on a wrongdoer.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• guilt ×18
• as to become guilty ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Ezra×6
• Psalms×1
• Amos×1

• Leviticus 4:3

  if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he shall present for his sin that he has sinned a young bull without defect to YHWH as a sin offering.

• Leviticus 6:5

  or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall repay it in full and add a fifth of it to it; he shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day of his guilt offering.

• Leviticus 6:7

  And the priest shall make expiation for him before YHWH, and he will be forgiven for any one of all the things that he may do so as to become guilty by it.”

• Leviticus 22:16

  and so cause them to bear iniquity of guilt when they eat their holy things; for I am YHWH, who sanctifies them.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:3

  Joab said, “May YHWH add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them servants of my lord? Why does my lord seek this? Why should it become a cause of guilt for Israel?”

• 2 Chronicles 24:18

  They abandoned the house of YHWH, Elohim of their fathers, and served the Asherahs and the idols; and there was wrath on Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

• 2 Chronicles 28:10

  And now you intend to subjugate the sons of Judah and Jerusalem as male slaves and female slaves for yourselves. Are there not indeed with you yourselves acts of guilt against YHWH your Elohim?

• 2 Chronicles 28:13

  and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives here, for what you intend leads to guilt before YHWH upon us, to add to our sins and to our acts of guilt; for great is the guilt we have, and there is burning anger against Israel.”

• 2 Chronicles 33:23

  He did not humble himself before YHWH, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but he, Amon, multiplied guilt.

• Ezra 9:6

  and I said, “My Elohim, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face, my Elohim, to you, for our iniquities have multiplied higher than our head, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

• Ezra 9:7

  From the days of our fathers we have been in great guilt until this day; and for our iniquities we have been given, our kings, and our priests, into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of face, as at this day.

• Ezra 9:13

  And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, for you, our Elohim, have held back punishment below our iniquity, and have given us escapees like these,

• Ezra 9:15

  YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left as escapees, as at this day. Here we are before you in our guilt, for it is not possible to stand before you because of this.”

• Ezra 10:10

  And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.

• 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.

• Psalms 69:5

  Elohim, you know my folly, and my guilt is not hidden from you.

• Amos 8:14

  Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, “As your god lives, Dan,” and, “As the way of Beersheba lives,” will fall and not rise again.

And 2 more times.