בֹּשֶׁת
bôsheth · bo'-sheth
shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
Lexicon
Derivation: from H954 (בּוּשׁ);
shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
- shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause)
- by implication, (specifically) an idol
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ashamed, confusion, [phrase] greatly, (put to) shame(-ful thing).
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to consume, to destroy › the mark, the covenant sign
The house, what is within that works to consume, to destroy of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בֹּשֶׁת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 25 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- with shame5 · 17%
- of their shame2 · 7%
- to thine own confusion1 · 3%
- and unto the confusion1 · 3%
- and to confusion1 · 3%
- before me, and the shame1 · 3%
- and my shame1 · 3%
- themselves with their own confusion1 · 3%
- be your shame1 · 3%
- but a shame1 · 3%
- they shall be greatly1 · 3%
- the shame1 · 3%
- for your shame1 · 3%
- is ashamed1 · 3%
- for shame1 · 3%
- in our shame1 · 3%
- do they not provoke themselves to the confusion1 · 3%
- to that shameful thing1 · 3%
- belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion1 · 3%
- to us belongeth confusion1 · 3%
- themselves unto that shame1 · 3%
- having thy shame1 · 3%
- shame1 · 3%
- no shame1 · 3%
- where they have been put to shame1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.