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אָשָׁם

asham

aw-shawm'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼâshâm

guilt

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

guilt; by implication, a fault; also a sin-offering

Rendered in the KJV as

guiltiness, (offering for) sin, trespass (offering).

  • 46
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 32
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 46 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 32

  • אָשָׁ֖ם3
  • הָאָשָׁ֖ם3
  • לְאָשָׁ֖ם3
  • אָשָׁ֑ם2
  • אָשָׁ֔ם2
  • אָשָׁם֙2
  • אָשָֽׁם׃2
  • אֲשָׁמוֹ֙2
  • הָאָשָׁ֑ם2
  • הָאָשָֽׁם׃2
  • וְהָאָשָׁ֔ם2
  • אָשָׁ֛ם1

and 20 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 16

  • the guilt offering12
  • a guilt offering6
  • guilt offering his5
  • to a guilt offering5
  • and the guilt offering3
  • guilt3
  • [is] a guilt offering2
  • the compensation2
  • [is] the guilt offering1
  • and like the guilt offering1
  • and to the guilt offering1
  • as the guilt offering1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 9

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular15
  • noun · masculine singular12
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular5
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 15
  • HNcmsa · 12
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 6
  • HR/Ncmsa · 5
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 3
  • HC/Rd/Ncmsa · 2
  • HNcmsc/Sp3mp · 1
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms · 1
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 1

All 46, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Leviticus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis1 occurrence
Leviticus27 occurrences
Numbers5 occurrences
1 Samuel4 occurrences
2 Kings1 occurrence
Psalms1 occurrence
Proverbs1 occurrence
Isaiah1 occurrence
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel4 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).