בֹּשֶׁתbôsheth

shame

Pronunciation: bo'-sheth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1322

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 30 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 20:30 Saul boiled with rage at Jonathan. “You stupid son of a whore!” he swore at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want him to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother?
  • 2 Chronicles 32:21 And the Lord sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib was forced to return home in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.
  • Ezra 9:7 From the days of our ancestors until now, we have been steeped in sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.
  • Job 8:22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the home of the wicked will be destroyed.”
  • Psalms 35:26 May those who rejoice at my troubles be humiliated and disgraced. May those who triumph over me be covered with shame and dishonor.
  • Psalms 40:15 Let them be horrified by their shame, for they said, “Aha! We’ve got him now!”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).