Strong's Hebrew · H1322

H1322 bôsheth

בֹּשֶׁת

bo'-sheth

shame

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bôsheth appears 30 times in Scripture, including 1 Samuel 20:30 and 2 Chronicles 32:21. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol

In the King James Version

ashamed, confusion, greatly, (put to) shame(-ful thing).

Derivation

from H954 (בּוּשׁ);

Appears 30 times in Scripture

1 Samuel 20:30

“Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?”

Psalms 109:29

“May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.”

Ezra 9:7

“From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.”

Job 8:22

“Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.””

Psalms 132:18

“I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.””

2 Chronicles 32:21

“and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.”

Psalms 35:26

“May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.”

Psalms 44:15

“All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,”

Psalms 40:15

“May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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