chafer · be ashamed, be disappointed

What it means

chafer (חָפֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be ashamed, be disappointed”.

To blush, to be embarrassed or disappointed, to feel shame over something that went wrong.

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 be ashamed because something went wrong.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• abashed ×11
• brings reproach ×2
• be disgraced ×1
• will be confounded ×1
• will be embarrassed ×1
• you will blush ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2
• Micah×1

• Job 6:20

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

• Psalms 34:5

  They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces will not be abashed.

• 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 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 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 71:24

  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,

• Proverbs 13:5

  A word of falsehood the righteous hates, but the wicked causes a stench and brings reproach.

• Proverbs 19:26

  Whoever plunders a father and drives away a mother is a son who brings shame and brings reproach.

• Isaiah 1:29

  For they will be ashamed of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush for the gardens that you chose.

• Isaiah 24:23

  And the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed, for YHWH Tsevaot will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders there will be glory.

• Isaiah 33:9

  The land mourns, languishes; Lebanon is abashed, it withers; Sharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 15:9

  She who bore seven languishes; she has breathed out her soul; her sun has gone down while it was still day; she has been put to shame and abashed. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 50:12

  your mother is greatly put to shame; she who bore you is abashed. Look, the last of the nations: a wilderness, a dry land, and a steppe.

• Micah 3:7

  And the seers will be ashamed, and the diviners will be embarrassed, and they will cover the mustache, all of them, for there is no answer from Elohim.”