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# בּוּשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H955

**shame** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/955/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּשָׁה: n.f. shame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/955/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. shame ψ 89:46 Mi 7:10 Ob v 10 Ez 7:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shame (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.46/#tree)

הִ֭קְצַרְתָּ יְמֵ֣י עֲלוּמָ֑יו הֶֽעֱטִ֨יתָ עָלָ֖יו בּוּשָׁ֣ה סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.cut.short the.days his.youth(s) his you.have.wrapped on him shame Selah

*JPS 1917:* The days of his youth hast Thou shortened; Thou hast covered him with shame.

[Obadiah 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.10/#tree)

מֵחֲמַ֛ס אָחִ֥יךָ יַעֲקֹ֖ב תְּכַסְּךָ֣ בוּשָׁ֑ה וְנִכְרַ֖תָּ לְעוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* from the.violence your.brother your Jacob it will.cover.you shame and you.will.be.cut.off forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* For the violence done to thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/955.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/955/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).