Strong's Lexicon

H819

H819 — אַשׁמָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewashmahnoun femOccurrences: 19TWOT: 180c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H819
Word:אַשׁמָה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:feminine of H817
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:19
Transliteration:ashmah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:ash-maw'
Meaning:1. guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of a sin-offering
KJV Renderings:offend, sin, (cause of) trespass(-ing, offering).

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BDB824

אַשְׁמָה noun feminine wrong-doing, guiltiness (properly Infinitive compare אַהֲבָה, יִרְאָה) — ׳ א Lev 22:16 + 5 t., construct אַשְׁמַת Ezra 10:10 + 3 t.; suffix אַשְׁמָתוֺ Lev 5:24 + 6 t.; plural אֲשָׁמוֺת 2Chr 28:10 suffix אַשְׁמוֺתַי Ps 69:6

1. doing wrong, committing a trespass or offence 2Chr 24:18 ; 2Chr 28:10; 2Chr 28:13 (3 t. in verse) (|| חטאת 2Chr 28:13) 2Chr 32:23 ; Ezra 9:6; Ezra 9:7; Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:15 (|| עָוֺן Ezra 9:13) Ps 69:6 (|| אִוֶּלָת); מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר יַעֲשֶׂה לְאַשְׁמָה בָהּ of all that one may do wrong therein Lev 5:26 ( P ; || לַחֲטֹא בָהֵנָּה v.Lev 6:22).
2. becoming guilty 1Chr 21:3; Ezra 10:10 ; Ezra 10:19 יֶחֱטָא לְאַשְׁמַת הָעָם sin to the becoming guilty of the people (so that the people incur guilt) Lev 4:3 אַשְׁמַת שֹׁמְרוֺן guilt of Samaria (their idols) Amos 8:14.
3. bringing a trespass-offering, בְּיוֺם אַשְׁמָתוֺ in the day of his bringing his trespass-offering Lev 5:24 עֲוֺן אַשְׁמָה iniquity requiring a trespass-offering Lev 22:16.


אַשְׁמוּרָה (מֻֿרוֺת, מֹֿרֶת) see שׁמר .


אַשְׁמַנִּים see שׁמן . p. 1032.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אשמה (ash-mih’)

Leviticus 4:3

KJV: If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.
EHCC: according to the sin of the people ;

Leviticus 6:5

KJV: Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.in the day…: or, in the day of his being found guilty: Heb. in the day of his trespass
EHCC: (8:24). 10, the day Pat trespass offering.

Leviticus 22:16

KJV: Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.suffer…: or, lade themselves with the iniquity of trespass in their eating
EHCC: bear the iniquity of trespass,

2 Chronicles 24:18

KJV: And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
EHCC: Jerusalem for this their trespass.

2 Chronicles 28:10

KJV: And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?
EHCC: sins against the Lord your God?

2 Chronicles 33:23

KJV: And humbled not himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.trespassed more and more: Heb. multiplied trespass
EHCC: Amon frespassed more and more. (marg. 1

Amos 8:14

KJV: They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer–sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.manner: Heb. way
EHCC: that wear by rs sin 5 eure

Exodus 14:24

KJV: And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
EHCC: in the morning watch the Lord looked

Judges 7:19

KJV: So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
EHCC: the beginning of the middle watch ;

Judges 18:112

EHCC: 1. the host in the morning wateh, ,

Psalms 63:6

KJV: When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
EHCC: (7). meditate on thee in the (night) watches.

Psalms 90:4

KJV: For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.when…: or, when he hath passed them
EHCC: and (as) ם watch in the night.

Psalms 119:148

KJV: Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
EHCC: Mine eyes prevent the (night) watches,

Lamentations 2:19

KJV: Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
EHCC: the beginning of the watches
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