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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.

Leviticus 22 verses 1 Samuel 21 verses Ezra 11 verses Job 11 verses Psalms 66 verses Isaiah 66 verses Jeremiah 33 verses Daniel 22 verses Acts 11 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses James 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

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).

Other KJV renderings

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.

Other KJV renderings

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.

Other KJV renderings

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

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Clear
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.

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.