אָשָׁם (ʾāšām) is a Hebrew noun meaning guilt offering. It appears 46 times in 10 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H817).

Also rendered

• trespass offering
• offense

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 180b)

Root family 180: אָשַׁם ʾāšam — be desolate, be guilty, to offend, to acknowledge offense, to trespass. (ASV and RSV prefer the terms “guilt” and “guilty” more than “trespass,” and neb does not hesitate to use words like reparation, compensation, penalty and punishment.)

• אָשַׁם ʾāšam — offend
• אַשְׁמָה ʾašmâ — wrong-doing
• אָשֵׁם ʾāšēm — guilty

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