מְבוּכָהmᵉbûwkâh
confusion, confounding (Isaiah 22:5; Micah 7:4)
Pronunciation: meb-oo-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3998
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Isaiah 22:5 Oh, what a day of crushing defeat! What a day of confusion and terror brought by the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, upon the Valley of Vision! The walls of Jerusalem have been broken, and cries of death echo from the mountainsides.
- Micah 7:4 Even the best of them is like a brier; the most honest is as dangerous as a hedge of thorns. But your judgment day is coming swiftly now. Your time of punishment is here, a time of confusion.
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).