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# אַשְׁמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H819

**wrong-doing** — used 19 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

wrong-doing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/819/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַשְׁמָה: n.f. wrong-doing, guiltiness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/819/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wrong-doing, guiltiness (properly Inf. cf. אַהֲבָה, יִרְאָה)—א׳ Lv 22:16 + 5 times, cstr. אַשְׁמַת Ezr 10:10 + 3 times; sf. אַשְׁמָתוֹ Lv 5:24 + 6 times; pl. אֲשָׁמוֹת 2 Ch 28:10; sf. אַשְׁמוֹתַי ψ 69:6;— doing wrong, committing a trespass or offence 2 Ch 24:18; 28:10, 13(×3) (‖ חטאת v 13) 33:23 Ezr 9:6, 7, 13, 15 (‖ עָוֹן v 13) ψ 69:6 (‖ אִוֶּלֶת); מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר יַעֲשֶׂת לְאַשְׁמָה בָהּ of all that one may do wrong therein Lv 5:26 (P; ‖ לַחֲטֹא בָהֵנָּה v 22). becoming guilty 1 Ch 21:3 Ezr 10:10, 19; יֶהֱטָא לְאַשְׁמַת הָעָם sin to the becoming guilty of the people (so that the people incur guilt) Lv 4:3; אַשְׁמַת שֹׁמְרוֹן guilt of Samaria (their idols) Am 8:14. bringing a trespass-offering, בְּיוֹם אַשְׁמָתוֹ in the day of his bringing his trespass-offering Lv 5:24; עֲוֹן אַשְׁמָה iniquity requiring a trespass-offering Lv 22:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: guilt (11); the guilt (3); \[are\] guilt(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 69:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.6/#tree)

אֱ‍ֽלֹהִ֗ים אַתָּ֣ה יָ֭דַעְתָּ לְאִוַּלְתִּ֑י וְ֝אַשְׁמוֹתַ֗י מִמְּךָ֥ לֹא־נִכְחָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* O.God you you.know (to) folly my and guilt(s) my from you not they.are.hidden

*JPS 1917:* O God, Thou knowest my folly; and my trespasses are not hid from Thee.

[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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/819/): 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).