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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Confusion

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

26exact KJV occurrences 23Old Testament 3New Testament 11books containing the word 10mapped Strong's IDs 26occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Leviticus 18:23

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

James 3:16

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where confusion appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH1322
בֹּשֶׁת

bôsheth · bo'-sheth

7 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol

Strong's KJV usage: ashamed, confusion, greatly, (put to) shame(-ful thing).

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 20:30Strong's last: Daniel 9:8

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HebrewH2659
חָפֵר

châphêr · khaw-fare'

2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences

v

to blush; figuratively, to be ashamed, disappointed; causatively, to shame, reproach

Strong's KJV usage: be ashamed, be confounded, be brought to confusion (unto shame), come (be put to) shame, bring reproach.

Strong's first: Psalms 35:4Strong's last: Psalms 35:26

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GreekG4799
σύγχυσις

sýnchysis · soong'-khoo-sis

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

commixture, i.e. (figuratively) riotous disturbance

Strong's KJV usage: :--confusion.

Strong's first: Acts 19:29Strong's last: Acts 19:29

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HebrewH954
בּוּשׁ

bûwsh · boosh

1 times translated as this KJV form109 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed

Strong's KJV usage: (be, make, bring to, cause, put to, with, a-) shamed(-d), be (put to) confounded(-fusion), become dry, delay, be long.

Strong's first: Psalms 71:1Strong's last: Psalms 71:1

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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26 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Leviticus 18:23
H8397

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

Leviticus 20:12
H8397

And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

1 Samuel 20:30
H1322

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

1 Samuel 20:30
H1322

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

Ezra 9:7
H1322

Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Job 10:15
H7036

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

Psalms 35:4
H2659

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Psalms 35:26
H2659

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psalms 44:15
H3639

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Psalms 70:2
H3637

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Psalms 71:1
H954

In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Psalms 109:29
H1322

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

Isaiah 24:10
H8414

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Isaiah 30:3
H3639

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

Isaiah 34:11
H8414

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Isaiah 41:29
H8414

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Isaiah 45:16
H3639

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Isaiah 61:7
H3639

For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Jeremiah 3:25
H3639

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 7:19
H1322

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Jeremiah 20:11
H3639

But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Daniel 9:7
H1322

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

Daniel 9:8
H1322

O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Acts 19:29
G4799

And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

1 Corinthians 14:33
G181

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

confusion

CONFUSION, noun

1. In a general sense, a mixture of several things promiscuously; hence, disorder; irregularity; as the confusion of tongues at Babel.

2. Tumult; want of order in society.

The whole city was filled with confusion Acts 19:29.

God is not the author of confusion 1 Corinthians 14:33.

3. A blending or confounding; indistinct combination; opposed to distinctness or perspicuity; as a confusion of ideas.

4. Abashment; shame.

O Lord, let me never be put to confusion Psalms 71:1.

We lie in shame and our confusion covereth us. Jeremiah 3:25.

5. Astonishment; agitation; perturbation; distraction of mind.

CONFUSION dwelt in every face.

6. Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

The makers of idols shall go to confusion together. Isaiah 45:16.

7. A shameful blending of natures, a shocking crime. Leviticus 18:23, 20:12.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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