Words the Bible translates as be ashamed
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- bushבּוֹשׁto be ashamed: to be publicly let down and exposed when a hope or a trust collapses, and the felt disgrace that goes with it
+1 more meaning
- to delay: to be long in coming, to tarry past the expected time
- aischunōαἰσχύνωto be ashamed; to be put to shame: to feel disgrace, or to be publicly exposed as having trusted or hoped wrongly
- entrepōἐντρέπωto pull someone up short with the sting of being in the wrong, or to be pulled up short that way
+1 more meaning
- to let another person's standing weigh on you enough to change what you do: to respect, to defer to
- ḥapherחָפֵרto be publicly disgraced: to be shamed, confounded, or left exposed when hope or help fails
Keep looking
Every English meaning beginning with B is on its letter page, and the whole index starts at Browse.