בּוּשׁbûwsh

be ashamed

Pronunciation: boosh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H954

Meanings

Qal

1. feel shame (Jeremiah 6:15; Isaiah 19:9; Isaiah 23:4)

2. be ashamed of, i.e. disconcerted, disappointed by reason of (Jeremiah 2:36; Jeremiah 12:13; Jeremiah 48:13)

3. with object (Ezekiel 8:22; Job 19:3; Jeremiah 14:3)

Polel: delay, (in shame) (Exodus 32:1; Judges 5:28)

Hiph`il

put to shame, one causing shame or acting shamefully (Psalms 44:8; Psalms 53:6; Psalms 119:31)

2.

a. put to shame (2 Samuel 19:6)

b. act shamefully (Hosea 2:7)

c. to be put to shame (Jeremiah 2:26; Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 46:24)

d. be ashamed (Jeremiah 8:9; Jeremiah 8:12; Joel 1:11)

Hithpa`el: ashamed before one another (Genesis 2:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 127 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:25 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
  • Exodus 32:1 When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.”
  • Judges 3:25 so they waited. But when the king didn’t come out after a long delay, they became concerned and got a key. And when they opened the doors, they found their master dead on the floor.
  • Judges 5:28 “From the window Sisera’s mother looked out. Through the window she watched for his return, saying, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why don’t we hear the sound of chariot wheels?’
  • 2 Samuel 19:5 Then Joab went to the king’s room and said to him, “We saved your life today and the lives of your sons, your daughters, and your wives and concubines. Yet you act like this, making us feel ashamed of ourselves.
  • 2 Kings 2:17 But they kept urging him until they shamed him into agreeing, and he finally said, “All right, send them.” So fifty men searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
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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).