H1322

בֹּ֫שֶׁת

bo.shetH:N-F

shame

1) shame 1a) shame 1b) shameful thing

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

בּ֫שֶׁת noun feminine shame Job 8:22 + 20 t.; suffix בָּשְׁתִּי Ps 69:20 + 7 t.

1. shame 1Sam 20:30 (twice in verse); Ps 40:16; Ps 69:20; Ps 70:4; Isa 30:3; Isa 30:5; Isa 61:7; Jer 2:26; Jer 3:25; Jer 20:18; Hab 2:10; Zeph 3:5; Zeph 3:19 לָבַשׁ בּשֶׁת clothe with shame Job 8:22; Ps 35:26; Ps 132:18 || עטה בשׁת Ps 109:29 בּשֶׁת (ה)פָּנִים shame (or confusion) of face 2Chr 32:21; Ezra 9:7; Dan 9:7; Dan 9:8, compare Ps 44:16; Jer 7:19 בּשֶׁת עֲלוּמֶיךָ shame of thy youth Isa 54:4 עֶרְיָהבֿשֶׁת nakedness (that is) shame Mic 1:11 compare Ps 45:5 בּשֶׁת עֶרְוַת אמך 1Sam 20:30.

2. shameful thing, substituted for בַּעַל (q. v.) by later editors, Hos 9:10; Jer 3:24 מִזְבְּחוֺת לַבּשֶׁת Jer 11:13, compare יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת 2Sam 11:21 = יְרֻבַּעַל Judg 6:32 אִישׁבּֿשֶׁת 2Sam 2:8 = אֶשְׁבַּעַל 1Chr 8:33.

מֹ֫לֶךְ proper name, of a divinity Molech (ᵐ5 Μολοχ, ᵑ9 Moloch) (= מֶלֶךְ i.e. (divine) King, with vowels of בּשֶׁת to denote abhorrence, Hoffm^{ZAW iii. 1883, 124} RS^{Semitic i. 353; 2nd ed. 372}; compare Hoffm^{GG Abh. xxxvi. 1890 a (May, 1889), 25}; Phoenician proper name, of divinity מלך Milk, in proper names compare Bloch, Dr^{Dt.222 f.}); — with article ׳הַמּ: — the god to whom Israel sacrificed children with fire (in valley of Hinnom); ׳העביר בָּנֵשׁ לַ מּ 2Kgs 23:10 ׳העביר לַמּ Jer 32:35 (|| הַבַּעַל), Lev 18:21 (H); ׳נתן לַמּ Lev 20:2; Lev 20:3; Lev 20:4 (H); more generally ׳לִזְנוֺת אַחֲרֵי הַמּ vLev 20:5 (H). In 1Kgs 11:7 read probably מִלְכֹּם, q. v.

24 occurrences

I Samuel (1), II Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Job (1), Psalms (3), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (6), Daniel (2), Hosea (1), Micah (1), Habakkuk (1), Zephaniah (1)