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Shame

ἐντροπήStrong’s G1791

entropē

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Entropē is the Greek word usually translated “shame”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?”
1 Corinthians 6:5 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “shame”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • shame 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Corinthians 2

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἐντροπή entropē · shame

ἐν-τροπή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX: Job.20:3, Psa.35:26 44:15 69:7, 19 71:13 109:29 (כְּלִמָּה)* ;] 1. with genitive of person(s), respect, reverence (Soph., Polyb., al.). 2. Absol., shame (Hipp.): 1Co.6:5 15:34.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “shame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SHAME, noun

  1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt, or of having done something which injures reputation; or by of that which nature nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
  2. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others.
  3. Reproach; ignominy; derision; contempt.“Ye have born the shame of the heathen” Ezekiel 36:6
  4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered.
All definitions and other forms of “shame”
  1. Dishonor; disgrace.

SHAME, verb transitive

  1. To make ashamed; to excite a consciousness of guilt or of doing something derogatory to reputation; to cause to blush.“I write not these things to shame you” 1 Corinthians 4:14
  2. To disgrace.
  3. To mock at.“Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor” Psalms 14:6

SHAME, verb intransitive

To be ashamed.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.