Lexical Definition

‎אַשְׁמָה‎ ʼashmâh (ash-maw') guiltiness ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎אָשָׁם‎

offend, sin, (cause of) trespass(-ing, offering).

• guiltiness, a fault, the presentation of asin-offering

1) guiltiness, guilt, offense, sin, wrong-doing
1a) doing wrong, committing a trespass or offense
1b) becoming guilty, guilt
1c) bringing a guilt-offering

See Greek: ἄγνοια · ἐλέγχω · ἡμέρα · ἱλασμός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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 v2Chr 28:13) 2Chr 32:23; Ezra 9:6; Ezra 9:7; Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:15 (|| ‎עָוֺן‎ vEzra 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.

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