Exodus 32:25
And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
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Shame
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Revelation 16:15
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
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בֹּשֶׁת
bôsheth · bo'-sheth
20 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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 32:21Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:19
Open full H1322 profile →כְּלִמָּה
kᵉlimmâh · kel-im-maw'
20 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 4:2Strong's last: Micah 2:6
Open full H3639 profile →קָלוֹן
qâlôwn · kaw-lone'
13 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: Psalms 83:16Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:16
Open full H7036 profile →בּוּשׁ
bûwsh · boosh
9 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 44:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:39
Open full H954 profile →כָּלַם
kâlam · kaw-lawm'
6 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: Judges 18:7Strong's last: Proverbs 25:8
Open full H3637 profile →αἰσχύνη
aischýnē · ahee-skhoo'-nay
5 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
shame or disgrace (abstractly or concretely)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dishonesty, shame.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 14:9Strong's last: Revelation 3:18
Open full G152 profile →בּוּשָׁה
bûwshâh · boo-shaw'
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
shame
Strong's KJV usage: shame.
Strong's first: Psalms 89:45Strong's last: Micah 7:10
Open full H955 profile →חָפֵר
châphêr · khaw-fare'
4 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 71:24Strong's last: Isaiah 54:4
Open full H2659 profile →αἰσχρός
aischrós · ahee-skhros'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
shameful, i.e. base (specially, venal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--filthy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 11:6Strong's last: Ephesians 5:12
Open full G150 profile →חֶרְפָּה
cherpâh · kher-paw'
3 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
Strong's KJV usage: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 13:13Strong's last: Daniel 12:2
Open full H2781 profile →ἐντροπή
entropḗ · en-trop-ay'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
confusion
Strong's KJV usage: :--shame.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 6:5Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 15:34
Open full G1791 profile →ἀσχημοσύνη
aschēmosýnē · as-kay-mos-oo'-nay
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
an indecency; by implication, the pudenda
Strong's KJV usage: :--shame, that which is unseemly.
Strong's first: Revelation 16:15Strong's last: Revelation 16:15
Open full G808 profile →ἀτιμάζω
atimázō · at-im-ad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to render infamous, i.e. (by implication) contemn or maltreat
Strong's KJV usage: :--despise, dishonour, suffer shame, entreat shamefully.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 5:41Strong's last: Acts 5:41
Open full G818 profile →ἀτιμία
atimía · at-ee-mee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
infamy, i.e. (subjectively) comparative indignity, (objectively) disgrace
Strong's KJV usage: :--dishonour, reproach, shame, vile.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 11:14Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 11:14
Open full G819 profile →ἐντρέπω
entrépō · en-trep'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to invert, i.e. (figuratively and reflexively) in a good sense, to respect; or in a bad one, to confound
Strong's KJV usage: :--regard, (give) reference, shame.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 4:14Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 4:14
Open full G1788 profile →καταισχύνω
kataischýnō · kat-ahee-skhoo'-no
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to shame down, i.e. disgrace or (by implication) put to the blush
Strong's KJV usage: :--confound, dishonour, (be a-, make a-)shame(-d).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 11:22Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 11:22
Open full G2617 profile →παραδειγματίζω
paradeigmatízō · par-ad-igue-mat-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to show alongside (the public), i.e. expose to infamy
Strong's KJV usage: :--make a public example, put to an open shame.
Strong's first: Hebrews 6:6Strong's last: Hebrews 6:6
Open full G3856 profile →בׇּשְׁנָה
boshnâh · bosh-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
shamefulness
Strong's KJV usage: shame.
Strong's first: Hosea 10:6Strong's last: Hosea 10:6
Open full H1317 profile →חָסַד
châçad · khaw-sad'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
properly, perhaps to bow (the neck only [compare 2603] in courtesy to an equal), i.e. to be kind; also (by euphemistically [compare 1288], but rarely) to reprove
Strong's KJV usage: shew self merciful, put to shame.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 25:10Strong's last: Proverbs 25:10
Open full H2616 profile →כְּלִמּוּת
kᵉlimmûwth · kel-im-mooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
disgrace
Strong's KJV usage: shame.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 23:40Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:40
Open full H3640 profile →עֶרְוָה
ʻervâh · er-vaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences
nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish)
Strong's KJV usage: nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 20:4Strong's last: Isaiah 20:4
Open full H6172 profile →שִׁמְצָה
shimtsâh · shim-tsaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
scornful whispering (of hostile spectators)
Strong's KJV usage: shame.
Strong's first: Exodus 32:25Strong's last: Exodus 32:25
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H955
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
H1322
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
H3639
Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
H955
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
H7036
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
H1322
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
H7036
Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
H1322
The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
H1322
Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
G152
And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
G818
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
G1788
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
G1791
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
G150
For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
G819
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
G2617
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
G150
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
G1791
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
G150
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
G152
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
G3856
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
G152
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
G152
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
G152
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
G808
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
English meaning and historical usage.
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shame
SHAME, noun
1. A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt, or of having done something which injures reputation; or by of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal. Shame is particularly excited by the disclosure of actions which, in the view of men, are mean and degrading. Hence it it is often or always manifested by a downcast look or by blushes, called confusion of face.
Hide, for shame,
Romans, your grandsires' images,
That blush at their degenerate progeny. Dryden.
Shame prevails when reason is defeated. Rambler.
2. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others. Thus an idol is called a shame.
Guides, who are the shame of religion. South.
3. Reproach; ignominy; derision; contempt.
Ye have born the shame of the heathen. Ezekiel 36:6.
4. The parts which modesty requires to be covered.
5. Dishonor; disgrace.
SHAME, verb transitive
1. To make ashamed; to excite a consciousness of guilt or of doing something derogatory to reputation; to cause to blush.
Who shames a scribbler, breaks a cobweb through. Pope.
I write not these things to shame you. 1 Corinthians 4:14.
2. To disgrace.
And with foul cowardice his carcass shame. Spenser.
3. To mock at.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor. Psalms 14:6.
SHAME, verb intransitive To be ashamed.
To its trunk authors give such a magnitude, as I shame to repeat. Raleigh.
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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