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title: אָשֵׁם — guilty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָשֵׁם (818), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: guilty. BDB 1906: adj. guilty. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָשֵׁם

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«אָשֵׁם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **guilty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 818 · **BDB:** אָשֵׁם

### Glosses

\[are\].guilty (1); a.guilty.\[person\] (1); guilty (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָשֵׁם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/818/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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