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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Confusion
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James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
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6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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בֹּשֶׁת
bôsheth · bo'-sheth
7 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H1322 profile →כְּלִמָּה
kᵉlimmâh · kel-im-maw'
6 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
disgrace
Strong's KJV usage: confusion, dishonour, reproach, shame.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 44:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 20:11
Open full H3639 profile →תֹּהוּ
tôhûw · to'-hoo
3 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
Strong's KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Strong's first: Isaiah 24:10Strong's last: Isaiah 41:29
Open full H8414 profile →ἀκαταστασία
akatastasía · ak-at-as-tah-see'-ah
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
instability, i.e. disorder
Strong's KJV usage: :--commotion, confusion, tumult.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 14:33Strong's last: James 3:16
Open full G181 profile →חָפֵר
châphêr · khaw-fare'
2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H2659 profile →תֶּבֶל
tebel · teh'-bel
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
mixture, i.e. unnatural bestiality
Strong's KJV usage: confusion.
Strong's first: Leviticus 18:23Strong's last: Leviticus 20:12
Open full H8397 profile →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
Open full G4799 profile →בּוּשׁ
bûwsh · boosh
1 times translated as this KJV form109 total Strong's occurrences
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
Open full H954 profile →כָּלַם
kâlam · kaw-lawm'
1 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult
Strong's KJV usage: be (make) ashamed, blush, be confounded, be put to confusion, hurt, reproach, (do, put to) shame.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 70:2Strong's last: Psalms 70:2
Open full H3637 profile →קָלוֹן
qâlôwn · kaw-lone'
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
disgrace; (by implication) the pudenda
Strong's KJV usage: confusion, dishonour, ignominy, reproach, shame.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 10:15Strong's last: Job 10:15
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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.
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.
H3639
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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.
H954
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
H1322
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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