Words the Bible translates as dismayed
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
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- to delay: to be long in coming, to tarry past the expected time
- ḥatatחָתַתto be broken, and so to be dismayed: to come apart under pressure, whether a thing that shatters or a person whose courage gives way; and to do this to someone else, to shatter or terrify them.
- bahalבָּהַלto be overwhelmed by sudden terror, or to strike that terror into someone
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- to hurry, act in haste, or do something rashly
- ḥatחַתdread: fear laid on a creature that drains its will to stand and fight
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- shattered: broken, whether a weapon that snaps or a fighter whose nerve gives way
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