bush · be ashamed; delay

What it means

bush (בּוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be ashamed; delay”.

Be ashamed, feel shame; be disappointed. In another form, be long in coming, delay.

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. To feel disgrace and distress over something bad one did or that befell him.
2. To be disgraced because what one trusted in failed.
3. To delay so long that others grow impatient.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To be ashamed, to be put to shame: to feel shame or be made a fool of because what one trusted in fails. BDB: to be ashamed; also to be confounded or disappointed. In another form it means to delay. From the same root is בֹּשֶׁת, “shame”.

• “They were not ashamed” Genesis 2:25
• “Let me not be ashamed”: trust that does not fail Psalms 25:2Psalms 25:3
• Let enemies or those who serve idols be put to shame Psalms 35:4Psalms 97:7
• The shame of one who acknowledges his guilt Ezra 9:6
• Being slow in coming Exodus 32:1Judges 5:28

How we translate it

“Be ashamed” 44 times, “ashamed” 21, “put to shame” 15, “will be put to shame” 11, “be put to shame” 8… In Ezra this edition distinguishes בּוֹשׁ, “ashamed”, from נִכְלַם, “humiliated”, which go together in Ezra 9:6 (“I am ashamed and humiliated”). “Delaying” or “slow” when the verb has that other sense (Exodus 32:1; Judges 5:28).

How it is translated

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

• be ashamed ×44
• ashamed ×21
• put to shame ×15
• will be put to shame ×11
• be put to shame ×8
• who brings shame ×5
• all ×2
• put me to shame ×2
• shame ×2
• shames ×1
• others ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Kings×3
• Ezra×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×34
• Proverbs×6
• Isaiah×22
• Jeremiah×26
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×3
• Joel×3
• Micah×2
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 2:25

  And the two of them, the man and his wife, were naked, and they were not ashamed.

• Exodus 32:1

  When the people saw that Moses was delaying to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”

• Judges 3:25

  They waited until they were ashamed, and look, he was not opening the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened them, and there was their lord, fallen to the ground, dead.

• Judges 5:28

  Through the window she looked out and cried, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot slow in coming? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariots delayed?’

• 2 Kings 2:17

  But they urged him until he was ashamed, and he said, “Send them.” So they sent fifty men, and they searched three days but did not find him.

• 2 Kings 8:11

  He fixed his face and kept it so until he was ashamed, and the man of Elohim wept.

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Their inhabitants, lacking strength, were terrified and put to shame; they were grass of the field and green of new grass, grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up.

• Ezra 8:22

  For I was ashamed to ask of the king troops and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had said to the king, saying, “The hand of our Elohim is on all who seek him for good, and his strength and his anger are against all who forsake him.”

• Ezra 9:6

  and I said, “My Elohim, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face, my Elohim, to you, for our iniquities have multiplied higher than our head, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

• Job 6:20

  They were ashamed because they had trusted; they came there and were abashed.

• Job 19:3

  These ten times you have put me to shame; you are not ashamed to mistreat me.

• Psalms 6:10

  All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed; they will turn back, they will be ashamed in an instant.

• Psalms 14:6

  The counsel of the afflicted you put to shame, for YHWH is his refuge.

• Psalms 22:5

  To you they cried out and escaped; in you they trusted and were not ashamed.

• Psalms 25:2

  My Elohim, in you I have trusted; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies exult over me.

• Psalms 25:3

  Also all who wait for you will not be ashamed; they will be ashamed who act treacherously without cause.

• Psalms 25:20

  Keep my soul and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in you.

• Psalms 31:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. In you, YHWH, I have taken refuge; let me not be ashamed ever; in your righteousness bring me to safety.

• Psalms 31:17

  YHWH, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on you; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.

• Psalms 35:4

  Let them be ashamed and humiliated, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be abashed, those who plot my harm.

• 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 37:19

  They will not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

• Psalms 40:14

  Let them be ashamed and abashed together, those who seek my soul to sweep it away; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

• Psalms 44:7

  But you have saved us from our adversaries, and those who hate us you have put to shame.

• Psalms 53:5

  There they were filled with dread where there was no dread, for Elohim scattered the bones of the one who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for Elohim despised them.

• Psalms 69:6

  Let not those who wait for you be ashamed because of me, Adonai YHWH Tsevaot; let not those who seek you be humiliated because of me, Elohim of Israel.

• Psalms 70:2

  Let them be ashamed and abashed, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

• Psalms 71:1

  In you, YHWH, I have taken refuge; let me not be ashamed ever.

• Psalms 71:13

  Let them be ashamed, let them be consumed, those who accuse my soul; let them be covered with reproach and humiliation, those who seek my harm.

• Psalms 71:24

  My tongue also all the day will meditate on your righteousness, for they have been put to shame, for they have been abashed, those who seek my harm.

• Psalms 83:17

  Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever, and let them be abashed and perish,

• Psalms 86:17

  Perform for me a sign for good, so that those who hate me may see and be put to shame, because you, YHWH, have helped me and comforted me.

• Psalms 97:7

  Let all who serve a carved image be put to shame, who boast in idols; bow down to him, all you gods!

• Psalms 109:28

  Let them curse, but you will bless; they have risen up and will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.

• Psalms 119:6

  Then I will not be ashamed when I look to all your commandments.

• Psalms 119:31

  I have clung to your testimonies; YHWH, do not put me to shame.

• Psalms 119:46

  And I will speak of your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.

• Psalms 119:78

  Let the insolent be ashamed, for with lies they have wronged me; I will reflect on your precepts.

• Psalms 119:80

  Let my heart be blameless in your statutes, so that I may not be ashamed.

• Psalms 119:116

  Uphold me according to your saying, and I will live, and do not put me to shame in my hope.

And 74 more times.