Strongs's #2659: chapher - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #2659: chapher (pronounced khaw-fare')

a primitive root (perhaps rath. the same as 2658 through the idea of detection): to blush; figuratively, to be ashamed, disappointed; causatively, to shame, reproach:--be ashamed, be confounded, be brought to confusion (unto shame), come (be put to) shame, bring reproach.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châphêr

1) to be ashamed, be confounded, be abashed, feel abashed

1a) (Qal) to be ashamed, be abashed
1b) (Hiphil) to display shame, demonstrate shame, cause embarrassment

Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [perhaps rather, the same as H2658 through the idea of detection]

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

Job 6:20: "they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed."
Psalms 34:5: "him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed."
Psalms 35:4: "my soul: let them be turned and brought to confusion that devise my hurt."
Psalms 35:26: "Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: with shame and dishonor"
Psalms 40:14: "Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul it; let them be driven backward"
Psalms 70:2: "Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned and put to confusion, that desire"
Psalms 71:24: "long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt."
Psalms 83:17: "Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:"
Proverbs 13:5: "lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame."
Proverbs 19:26: "his mother, is a son and bringeth reproach."
Isaiah 1:29: "of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that"
Isaiah 24:23: "Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when of hosts shall reign"
Isaiah 33:9: "mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed Sharon is like a wilderness;"
Isaiah 54:4: "be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,"
Jeremiah 15:9: "while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before"
Jeremiah 50:12: "shall be sore confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: the hindmost of the nations shall be a wilderness,"
Micah 3:7: "Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all their lips;"

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