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Hebrew
Noun
אָשָׁם תָּלוּי • (ashám talúy) m
- (Jewish law) a guilt offering to be offered when one is in doubt as to the commission of a sinful act (literally "suspended guilt-offering")
References
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 129