אָשַׁם

asham

ah-SHAHM

guilty, bearing guilt

Where it comes from

Asham is not the feeling of guilt but the fact of it — the debt that stands whether or not anyone is thinking about it. Twenty years after the pit, the brothers say it out loud for the first time, and they say it to each other before they say it to God.

Every place it appears

Strong's H816. It stands in 32 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. See them →

Genesis 42:21

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

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