Confusion
מְבוּכָהStrong’s H3998mevukhah (me-vu-khah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mevukhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “confusion” and “confusion their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.”
Meaning
- Confusion, perplexity, confounding
How it's translated
- and confusion 1
- confusion their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Micah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְבוּכָה mevukhah · confusion
confusion, perplexity, confounding
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “confusion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONFUSION, noun
- In a general sense, a mixture of several things promiscuously; hence, disorder; irregularity; as the confusion of tongues at Babel.
- Tumult; want of order in society.“The whole city was filled with confusion” Acts 19:29“God is not the author of confusion” 1 Corinthians 14:33
- A blending or confounding; indistinct combination; opposed to distinctness or perspicuity; as a confusion of ideas.
- Abashment; shame.“O Lord, let me never be put to confusion” Psalms 71:1“We lie in shame and our confusion covereth us” Jeremiah 3:25
All definitions
- Astonishment; agitation; perturbation; distraction of mind.
- Overthrow; defeat; ruin.“The makers of idols shall go to confusion together” Isaiah 45:16
- A shameful blending of natures, a shocking crime., 20:12. Leviticus 18:23
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.