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# בֹּשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1322

**shame** — used 30 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/1489/1322/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֹ֫שֶׁת: n.f. shame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1322/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. shame Jb 8:22 + 20 times; sf. בָּשְׁתִּי ψ 69:20 + 7 times shame 1 S 20:30(×2) ψ 40:16; 69:20; 70:4 Is 30:3, 5; 42:17; 61:7 Je 2:26; 3:25; 20:18 Hb 2:10 Zp 3:5, 19; לָבַשׁ בֹּשֶׁת clothe with shame Jb 8:22 ψ 35:26; 132:18; ‖ עטה בשׁת ψ 109:29; בֹּשֶׁת (ה)פָּנִים shame (or confusion) of face 2 Ch 32:21 Ezr 9:7 Dn 9:7, 8, cf. ψ 44:16 Je 7:19, בֹּשֶׁת עֲלוּמֶיךָ shame of thy youth Is 54:4; עֶרְיָה־בֹשֶׁת nakedness (that is) shame Mi 1:11 cf. ψ 45:5; בֹּשֶׁת עֶרְוַת אמך 1 S 20:30. shameful thing, substituted for בַּעַל (q.v.) by later editors, Ho 9:10 Je 3:24; מִזְבְּחוֹת לַבֹּשֶׁת Je 11:13, cf. יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת 2 S 11:21 = יְרֻבַּעַל Ju 6:32; אִישׁ־בֹּשֶׁת 2 S 2:8 = אֶשְׁבַּעַל 1 Ch 8:33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 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 (19); the shame (6); their shame (2).

## In the verses

[Job 8:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.22/#tree)

שֹׂנְאֶ֥יךָ יִלְבְּשׁוּ־בֹ֑שֶׁת וְאֹ֖הֶל רְשָׁעִ֣ים אֵינֶֽנּוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* \[those who\].hate.you they.will.be.clothed shame and.\[the\] tent of.wicked.\[people\] it.\[will\] not.\[be\]

*JPS 1917:* They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

[Psalms 70:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.70.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.70.4/#tree)

יָ֭שׁוּבוּ עַל־עֵ֣קֶב בָּשְׁתָּ֑ם הָ֝אֹמְרִ֗ים הֶ֘אָ֥ח ׀ הֶאָֽח׃

*Word for word:* may.they.turn.back on the.consequence their.shame their \[those who\].say aha! aha!

*JPS 1917:* Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; and let such as love Thy salvation say continually: 'Let God be magnified.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1322/): 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).