Words the Bible translates as reproach
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- oneidismosὀνειδισμόςreproach: the public insult and disgrace heaped on a person by hostile, shaming words.
- ḥerpahחֶרְפָּהpublic disgrace: the scorn others heap on you and the shame that then sticks to you in their eyes
- oneidizōὀνειδίζωto reproach: to throw a person's fault, real or alleged, in their face with words that shame them in front of others.
- ḥaraphחָרַףto throw shaming words at someone, daring or despising them: to taunt, mock, or defy
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- to spend the cold season: to stay somewhere through the rainy winter months
- to be assigned or promised to a man: said of a slave woman set aside for a particular man
- kelimmahכְּלִמָּהpublic disgrace: the humiliation of being dishonored before others, and the insults and abuse that bring it about.
- gadaphגָּדַףto attack someone with cutting, contemptuous words, and when God is the target, to blaspheme him
- ḥasadחָסַדto disgrace someone: to shame or reproach a person so that the bad name sticks.
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- to act toward someone with loyal love: to show yourself faithful and kind to a person you are bound to.
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