Hebrew noun (masculine) · H817
אָשָׁם
ashamaw-shawm'
guilt (offering)
46 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâshâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H817is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 32spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H817
guilt; by implication, a fault; also a sin-offering
The King James renders it: guiltiness, (offering for) sin, trespass (offering).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
asham is rendered "guilt (offering)". It stands 46 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Twenty-seven of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 26:10“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
- The Greek text spells it thirty-two different ways.
The first use
“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Genesis 26:10אָשָֽׁם׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the guilt offering13
- a guilt offering8
- guilt offering his5
- to a guilt offering5
- and the guilt offering3
- guilt3
- the compensation2
- and like the guilt offering1
- and to the guilt offering1
- as the guilt offering1
- compensation its1
- guilt offering1
and 2 more, 46 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 46, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
32 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָשָׁ֖ם3
- הָאָשָׁ֖ם3
- לְאָשָׁ֖ם3
- אָשָׁ֑ם2
- אָשָׁ֔ם2
- אָשָׁם֙2
- אָשָֽׁם׃2
- אֲשָׁמוֹ֙2
- הָאָשָׁ֑ם2
- הָאָשָֽׁם׃2
- וְהָאָשָׁ֔ם2
- אָשָׁ֛ם1
and 20 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular15HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular12HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular5HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Td/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
- אָשָֽׁם׃ʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: guilt
Leviticus
twenty-seven uses
and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- אֲשָׁמ֣וֹʾashamonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: guilt offering his
If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
- אֲשָׁמ֜וֹʾashamonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: guilt offering his
“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.
- אֲשָׁמ֨וֹʾashamonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: guilt offering his
- לְאָשָֽׁם׃leashampreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a guilt offering
Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.
- הָאָשָׁ֖םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
He is to bring to the priest an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the wrong he has committed in ignorance, and he will be forgiven.
- לְאָשָׁ֖םleashampreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a guilt offering
It is a guilt offering; he was certainly guilty before the LORD.”
- אָשָׁ֖םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
Then he must bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock.
- אֲשָׁמ֥וֹʾashamonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: guilt offering his
- לְאָשָׁ֖םleashampreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a guilt offering
It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My offerings made by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
- וְכָאָשָֽׁם׃vekhaashamconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the guilt offering
“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
- הָאָשָׁ֑םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.
- הָאָשָׁ֑םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
The priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.
- אָשָׁ֖םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
- כָּֽאָשָׁ֔םkaashampreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: as the guilt offering
This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,
- וְלָאָשָׁ֑םvelaashamconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the guilt offering
Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
- לְאָשָׁ֖םleashampreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a guilt offering
Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
- הָאָשָׁ֥םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- הָאָשָׁם֒haashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
And the priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
- הָאָשָֽׁם׃haashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,
- אָשָׁ֛םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
The priest shall take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
- הָאָשָׁ֖םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
And after he slaughters the lamb for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- הָֽאָשָׁם֒haashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
- הָֽאָשָׁ֔םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
The priest shall also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot—on the same places as the blood of the guilt offering.
- הָאָשָֽׁם׃haashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.
- אֲשָׁמוֹ֙ʾashamonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: guilt offering his
- אָשָֽׁם׃ʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.
- הָֽאָשָׁם֙haashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
Numbers
five uses
and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.
- אֲשָׁמוֹ֙ʾashamonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: compensation its
But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.
- הָאָשָׁם֙haashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the compensation
- הָאָשָׁ֛םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the compensation
He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.
- לְאָשָׁ֑םleashampreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a guilt offering
A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
- אֲשָׁמָם֙ʾashamamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: guilt offering their
1 Samuel
four uses
They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
- אָשָׁ֑םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
- הָאָשָׁם֮haashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,
- אָשָׁ֔םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
As a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.
- אָשָׁ֖םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
2 Kings
one use
The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
- אָשָׁם֙ʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: guilt offering
Psalms
one use
Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
- בַּאֲשָׁמָֽיו׃baashamavpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in guilts his
Proverbs
one use
Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.
- אָשָׁ֑םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: guilt
Isaiah
one use
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- אָשָׁם֙ʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: a guilt offering
Jeremiah
one use
For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
- אָשָׁ֔םʾashamnoun · masculine singulartagged: guilt
Ezekiel
four uses
Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered.
- וְהָאָשָֽׁם׃vehaashamconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the guilt offering
Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
- וְהָאָשָׁ֔םvehaashamconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the guilt offering
They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.
- וְהָאָשָׁ֔םvehaashamconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the guilt offering
and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
- הָאָשָׁ֖םhaashamthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the guilt offering
The letters
Gematria 341· 901 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.