boshet · shame

What it means

boshet (בֹּשֶׁת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shame”.

The feeling of one who is put to dishonor and also what causes it. The prophets sometimes use it as a nickname for an idol.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The shame one suffers, or what causes it.
2. "The Shame": a scornful name for Baal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• shame ×30
• Mephibosheth ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×6
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×2

• 1 Samuel 20:30

  The anger of Saul burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “Son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother?

• 2 Samuel 21:7

  But the king spared Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the oath of YHWH that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

• 2 Chronicles 32:21

  YHWH sent an angel, who wiped out every mighty man of valor and leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria; and he returned with shame of face to his land. He went into the house of his god, and some of those who came out of his own body made him fall there by the sword.

• Ezra 9:7

  From the days of our fathers we have been in great guilt until this day; and for our iniquities we have been given, our kings, and our priests, into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of face, as at this day.

• Job 8:22

  Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

• Psalms 35:26

  Let them be ashamed and abashed together, those who are glad at my harm; let them be clothed with shame and humiliation, those who magnify themselves against me.

• Psalms 40:15

  Let them be desolate because of their shame, those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”

• Psalms 44:15

  All the day my humiliation is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

• Psalms 69:19

  You know my reproach and my shame and my humiliation; before you are all my adversaries.

• Psalms 70:3

  Let them turn around because of their shame, those who say, “Aha! Aha!”

• Psalms 109:29

  Let my accusers be clothed with humiliation, and let them wrap themselves as in a robe in their shame.

• Psalms 132:18

  His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon him his diadem will flourish.”

• Isaiah 30:3

  And the stronghold of Pharaoh will become for you a shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt a humiliation.

• Isaiah 30:5

  Everyone has been put to shame because of a people that does not profit them, not for help and not for profit, but for shame and also for reproach.

• Isaiah 42:17

  They will be turned back, they will be utterly put to shame, those who trust in the carved image, who say to the cast image, ‘You are our gods.’

• Isaiah 54:4

  Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; and do not be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; for the shame of your youth you will forget, and the reproach of your widowhood you will not remember anymore.

• Isaiah 61:7

  Instead of your shame, a double portion; and instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion; therefore in their land they will possess a double portion; eternal joy will be theirs.

• Jeremiah 2:26

  As the shame of a thief when he is found, so the house of Israel is put to shame, they, their kings, their princes, and their priests and their prophets,

• Jeremiah 3:24

  But the Shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

• Jeremiah 3:25

  Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us, for against YHWH our Elohim we have sinned, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not heeded the voice of YHWH our Elohim.”

• Jeremiah 7:19

  Is it me they provoke to anger? declares YHWH. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?

• Jeremiah 11:13

  For as the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and as the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the Shame, altars to burn incense to Baal.

• Jeremiah 20:18

  Why did I come out from the womb to see suffering and sorrow, and that my days should be consumed in shame?

• Daniel 9:7

  To you, Adonai, belongs righteousness, but to us shame of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, those near and those far away, in all the lands where you have driven them because of their unfaithfulness that they have committed against you.

• Daniel 9:8

  YHWH, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

• Hosea 9:10

  Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel; like the early fruit on the fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers; they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the shame, and they became detestable things like what they loved.

• Micah 1:11

  Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitant of Zaanan has not come out; the lament of Beth-ezel will take from you its support.

• Habakkuk 2:10

  You have counseled shame for your house, making an end of many peoples, and you are sinning against your soul.

• Zephaniah 3:5

  YHWH is righteous in her midst; he does not do injustice; morning by morning he brings his justice to the light; he does not fail; but the unjust does not know shame.

• Zephaniah 3:19

  Look, I will deal with all who afflict you at that time; and I will save the lame and the banished I will assemble; and I will make them a praise and a name in all the land of their shame.

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