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# אָשֵׁם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H818

**guilty** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

guilty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/818/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָשֵׁם: adj. guilty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/818/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. guilty, א׳ abs. 2 S 14:13; pl. אֲשֵׁמִים עַל־אָחִינוּ Gn 42:21 (E); guilty, and so bound to offer a trespass-offering Ezr 10:19; but read prob. וַאֲשָׁמָם, so KueChronol. v. h. Perzishce Tijdvak, 1890, 43.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] guilty (1); a guilty \[person\] (1); guilty (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.19/#tree)

וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ יָדָ֖ם לְהוֹצִ֣יא נְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם וַאֲשֵׁמִ֥ים אֵֽיל־צֹ֖אן עַל־אַשְׁמָתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.gave hand their to send.out wives their and.\[being\] guilty a.ram of.\[the\].flock on guilt their

*JPS 1917:* And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

[2 Samuel 14:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.14.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.14.13/#tree)

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה וְלָ֧מָּה חָשַׁ֛בְתָּה כָּזֹ֖את עַל־עַ֣ם אֱלֹהִ֑ים וּמִדַּבֵּ֨ר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ הַדָּבָ֤ר הַזֶּה֙ כְּאָשֵׁ֔ם לְבִלְתִּ֛י הָשִׁ֥יב הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ אֶֽת־נִדְּחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and she.said the woman and why? have.you.planned like this on the.people of.God and because has.spoken the king the word (the) this like a.guilty.\[person\] to not to.bring.back the king (et) his.banished \[son\]

*JPS 1917:* And the woman said: 'Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/818.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/818/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).