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Jeremiah 8:12

“Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

יָבֵשׁyâbêsh · yaw-bashe'
H3001 · Hebrew
Definition
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), [idiom] utterly, wither (away).
Grammar
  • הֹבִ֕שׁוּ — verb Hiphil, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
Code HVhp3cp
Usage
Occurs 73 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 8:7Genesis 8:14Joshua 2:10Joshua 4:23Joshua 4:23

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.