Trespass offering

(Hebrews `asham, "debt"), the law concerning, given in Leviticus 5:14-6:7; also in Numbers 5:5-8. The idea of sin as a "debt" pervades this legislation. The asham, which was always a ram, was offered in cases where sins were more private. (see OFFERING.)

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. i.) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

2. (v. i.) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

3. (v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

4. (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.

5. (n.) Any injury or offence done to another.

6. (n.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

7. (n.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.

8. (n.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.