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Shame

בּוּשָׁהStrong’s H0955

bushah (bu-shah)

Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bushah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shame”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

“The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.”
Psalms 89:45 KJV
Meaning
  1. Shame
How it's translated
  • shame 4

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1
  • Ezekiel 1
  • Obadiah 1
  • Micah 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

בּוּשָׁה bushah · shame

shame

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.