Shame
בֹּ֫שֶׁתStrong’s H1322boshet (bo-shet)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Boshet is the Hebrew word usually translated “shame”, “shame their” and “shame of”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.”
Meaning
- Shameshameful thing
How it's translated
- shame 8
- shame their 4
- shame of 4
- to own shame your 1
- and to shame of 1
- with shame of 1
- and by shame of 1
- and shame of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 6
- Isaiah 5
- Daniel 2
- Zephaniah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:8In contextO Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
- 1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?
- 2 Chronicles 32:21And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
- Ezra 9:7Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
- Job 8:22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
- Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Hebrew dictionary
בֹּ֫שֶׁת boshet · shame
1) shame 1a) shame 1b) shameful thing
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
- 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.
- The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others.
- Reproach; ignominy; derision; contempt.“Ye have born the shame of the heathen” Ezekiel 36:6
- The parts which modesty requires to be covered.
All definitions and other forms of “shame”
- Dishonor; disgrace.
SHAME, verb transitive
- 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
- To disgrace.
- 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.