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Strong's H6588 פֶּשַׁע (pesha)

Pesha means “rebellion” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6588
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 90
Books 17

Strong's H6588 Quick Answer

Strong's H6588 פֶּשַׁע (pesha`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. pesha` (peh'-shah) n-m. 1. a revolt (national, moral or religious) [from H6586] It has 90 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include transgressions, transgression, sins, sin, and trespass. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
pesha` (peh'-shah) n-m. 1. a revolt (national, moral or religious) [from H6586]
Usage
90 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
transgressions, transgression, sins, sin, and trespass

Meaning and Definition

pesha` (peh'-shah) n-m. 1. a revolt (national, moral or religious) [from H6586] KJV: rebellion, sin, transgression, trespass. Root(s): H6586

Original Word
פֶּשַׁע
Transliteration
pesha`
Derivation
Root: פשׁע First root strongs: 6586
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6588. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

transgression

Usage: 1) transgression, rebellion 1a1) transgression (against individuals) 1a2) transgression (nation against nation) 1a3) transgression (against God) 1a3a) in general 1a3b) as recognised by sinner 1a3c) as God deals with it 1a3d) as God forgives 1a4) guilt of transgression 1a5) punishment for transgression 1a6) offering for transgression

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How Strong's H6588 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pesha`, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

transgressions Exodus 23:21 32× transgression Numbers 14:18 27× sins Leviticus 16:16 16× sin Exodus 34:7 10× trespass Exodus 22:9 my Genesis 31:36 rebellion Job 34:37

How Strong's H6588 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 90 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6588 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6588 in the Old Testament

90 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 31:36 KJV

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

Genesis 50:17 KJV

So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

Exodus 22:9 KJV

For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

Usage Excerpts

First 90 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6588.

Genesis 31:36 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Genesis 50:17 Old Testament, KJV
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
Exodus 22:9 Old Testament, KJV
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
Exodus 23:21 Old Testament, KJV
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Exodus 34:7 Old Testament, KJV
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Leviticus 16:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Leviticus 16:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Numbers 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Joshua 24:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
1 Samuel 24:11 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
1 Samuel 25:28 Old Testament, KJV
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
1 Kings 8:50 Old Testament, KJV
And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
Job 7:21 Old Testament, KJV
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
Job 13:23 Old Testament, KJV
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job 14:17 Old Testament, KJV
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job 31:33 Old Testament, KJV
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Job 33:9 Old Testament, KJV
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Job 34:6 Old Testament, KJV
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
Job 34:37 Old Testament, KJV
For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
Job 35:6 Old Testament, KJV
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Job 36:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Psalms 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psalms 19:13 Old Testament, KJV
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Psalms 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
Psalms 32:1 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psalms 32:5 Old Testament, KJV
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms 36:1 Old Testament, KJV
The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 39:8 Old Testament, KJV
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms 51:1 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 51:3 Old Testament, KJV
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Psalms 59:3 Old Testament, KJV
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Psalms 65:3 Old Testament, KJV
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Psalms 89:32 Old Testament, KJV
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 103:12 Old Testament, KJV
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalms 107:17 Old Testament, KJV
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Proverbs 10:12 Old Testament, KJV
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs 10:19 Old Testament, KJV
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs 12:13 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 17:19 Old Testament, KJV
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs 19:11 Old Testament, KJV
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs 28:2 Old Testament, KJV
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
Proverbs 28:13 Old Testament, KJV
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs 28:24 Old Testament, KJV
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs 29:6 Old Testament, KJV
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Proverbs 29:16 Old Testament, KJV
When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Proverbs 29:22 Old Testament, KJV
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Isaiah 24:20 Old Testament, KJV
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isaiah 43:25 Old Testament, KJV
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 44:22 Old Testament, KJV
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah 50:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Isaiah 53:5 Old Testament, KJV
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:8 Old Testament, KJV
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isaiah 57:4 Old Testament, KJV
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.
Isaiah 58:1 Old Testament, KJV
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 59:12 Old Testament, KJV
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isaiah 59:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Lamentations 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 1:22 Old Testament, KJV
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Ezekiel 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 18:22 Old Testament, KJV
All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
Ezekiel 18:28 Old Testament, KJV
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:30 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:31 Old Testament, KJV
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 21:24 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
Ezekiel 33:10 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
Ezekiel 33:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ezekiel 37:23 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 39:24 Old Testament, KJV
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Daniel 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Daniel 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Daniel 9:24 Old Testament, KJV
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Amos 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos 1:6 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
Amos 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
Amos 1:11 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Amos 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
Amos 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Amos 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
Amos 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
Amos 5:12 Old Testament, KJV
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Micah 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Micah 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Micah 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Micah 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6588, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 10 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 14 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 12 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Old Testament
Amos 10 usages, Old Testament
Micah 5 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H6588 FAQ

What does pesha (פֶּשַׁע) mean?

Pesha (Strong's H6588) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "rebellion". pesha` (peh'-shah) n-m. 1. a revolt (national, moral or religious) [from H6586]

How many times is pesha (פֶּשַׁע) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 90 linked usages for Strong's H6588 across 17 books.

Where can I study pesha (פֶּשַׁע) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6588 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate pesha (פֶּשַׁע)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as transgressions, transgression, sins, sin, trespass, and my. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.