H1322 - בֹּשֶׁת (bôsheth)

H1322 בֹּשֶׁת (bôsheth) bo'-sheth

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

shame

Strong's Definition

shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol

Derivation: from H954 (בּוּשׁ);

KJV Usage: ashamed, confusion, [phrase] greatly, (put to) shame(-ful thing).

TWOT Reference: 222b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) shame

1a) shame

1b) shameful thing

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G152

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) shame 1a) shame 1b) shameful thing

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בֹּשֶׁת bôsheth BDB Definition: 1) shame 1a) shame 1b) shameful thing Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H954 Same Word by TWOT Number: 222b Total KJV Occurrences: 29

Bible Occurrences (29)

20:30

32:21

9:7

8:22

35:26 40:15 44:15 69:19 70:3 109:29 132:18

30:3 30:5 42:17 54:4 61:7

2:26 3:24 3:25 7:19 11:13 20:18

9:7 9:8

9:10

1:11

2:10

3:5 3:19

1 Samuel 20:30

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

2 Chronicles 32:21

and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and [every] leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace.... And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own [sons] struck him down with the sword.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings [and] priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth [and subjected] to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation..., as we are this day.

Job 8:22

Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.

Isaiah 30:3

But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

Isaiah 30:5

everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.

Isaiah 42:17

But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, You are our gods! will be turned back in utter shame.

Isaiah 54:4

Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.