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Strong's #954: buwsh (pronounced boosha)

primitive root; properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed:--(be, make, bring to, cause, put to, with, a-)shamed(-d), be (put to) confounded(-fusion), become dry, delay, be long.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bûsh

1) to put to shame, be ashamed, be disconcerted, be disappointed

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to feel shame

1a2) to be ashamed, disconcerted, disappointed (by reason of)

1b) (Piel) to delay (in shame)

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to put to shame

1c2) to act shamefully

1c3) to be ashamed

1d) (Hithpolel) to be ashamed before one another

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 119 times:

Jeremiah 51:47: "of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst"
Jeremiah 51:51: " We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered for"
Ezekiel 16:52: "than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame,"
Ezekiel 16:63: "That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth because"
Ezekiel 32:30: "with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised"
Ezekiel 36:32: "the Lord be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house"
Hosea 2:5: "their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for I will go after"
Hosea 4:19: "The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices."
Hosea 10:6: "shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel."
Hosea 13:15: "shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he"
Joel 1:11: " Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat the barley;"
Joel 2:26: "wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed."
Joel 2:27: "else: and my people shall never be ashamed."
Micah 3:7: "Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover"
Micah 7:16: "The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay"
Zephaniah 3:11: "In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings,"
Zechariah 9:5: "also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza,"
Zechariah 10:5: "is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded."
Zechariah 13:4: "in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one when he hath prophesied;"









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