Bible Vocabulary

Word Forms

These forms come from “trespass” and change to fit the sentence.

  • trespassbase form
  • trespassedpast and past participle
  • trespassesplural, third-person singular present
  • trespassingpresent participle

trespass

nounverb /ˈtɹɛspæs/

WEB 101 appearances

KJV 111 appearances

Trespass means to go where you are not allowed, or to do something wrong.

Biblical Usage

In the Bible, people say someone has trespassed when they do not follow God’s rules. It shows that they have made a mistake and need forgiveness.

WEB Representative Scriptures

and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
Leviticus 7:5 (WEB)
The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
1 Chronicles 2:7 (WEB)
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
Nehemiah 13:27 (WEB)

KJV Representative Scriptures

Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Leviticus 22:16 (KJV)
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD : it was the priests’.
2 Kings 12:16 (KJV)
¶ And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD : this is that king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles 28:22 (KJV)