Definition

to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish

Etymology

or אָשֵׁם; a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• certainly
• be(-come
• made) desolate
• destroy
• greatly
• found
• hold) guilty
• offend (acknowledge offence)
• trespass

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.