Topic
Ashamed
50 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 2:25ISBE
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- 2 Samuel 10:5ISBE
When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
- 2 Kings 2:17ISBE
And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
- 2 Kings 8:11ISBE
And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
- Ezra 8:22ISBE
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is…
- Ezra 9:6ISBE
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
- Psalms 6:10ISBE
Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
- Psalms 31:17ISBE
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
- Psalms 34:5ISBE
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
- Isaiah 1:29ISBE
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
- Isaiah 24:23ISBE
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
- Isaiah 33:9ISBE
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
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- Isaiah 44:9 ISBE
- Isaiah 44:11 ISBE
- Isaiah 45:16 ISBE
- Isaiah 50:7 ISBE
- Isaiah 54:4 ISBE
- Jeremiah 2:26 ISBE
- Jeremiah 2:36 ISBE
- Jeremiah 3:3 ISBE
- Jeremiah 6:15 ISBE
- Jeremiah 8:12 ISBE
- Jeremiah 14:3 ISBE
- Jeremiah 14:4 ISBE
- Jeremiah 15:9 ISBE
- Jeremiah 17:13 ISBE
- Jeremiah 20:11 ISBE
- Jeremiah 31:19 ISBE
- Jeremiah 48:13 ISBE
- Jeremiah 50:12 ISBE
- Ezekiel 16:27 ISBE
- Ezekiel 16:61 ISBE
- Joel 2:26 ISBE
- Matthew 10:33 ISBE
- Mark 8:38 ISBE
- Luke 9:26 ISBE
- Romans 1:1 ISBE
- Romans 1:16 ISBE
- Romans 6:21 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 4:2 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 1:12 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 1:16 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 1:18 ISBE
- Titus 1:15 ISBE
- Hebrews 2:11 ISBE
- Hebrews 11:16 ISBE
- 1 Peter 4:16 ISBE
- 1 John 2:28 ISBE
- Revelation 21:23 ISBE
- Revelation 22:5 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 52 references
a-shamd': Almost exclusively moral in significance; confusion or abashment through consciousness of guilt or of its exposure. Often including also a sense of terror or fear because of the disgrace connected with the performance of some action. Capacity for shame indicates that moral sense (conscience) is not extinct. "Ashamed" occurs 96 out of 118 times in the Old Testament. Hebrew bosh, "to feel shame" (Latin, pudere), with derivatives occurs 80 times; kalam, "to shame," including the thought of "disgrace," "reproach"; chapher, "to blush": hence shame because of frustrated plans (uniformly in the Revised Version (British and American) "confounded"); Greek aischunomai, "suffused with shame," passive only and its compounds. Uses:
(1) A few times, of actual embarrassment, as of Hazael before the steadfast look of Elisha (2Ki 8:11; see also 2Sa 10:5; 2Ki 2:17; Ezr 8:22).
(2) Innocence not capable of shame: "both naked .... and .... not ashamed" (Ge 2:25; see SHAME); the redeemed no occasion for (Ps 34:5 the King James Version; 1Joh 2:28); Christ not of "brethren" (Heb 2:11); nor Christian of gospel (Ro 1:16); nor God of men of faith (Heb 11:16); nor they who trust in God (Isa 50:7; 54:4; Joe 2:26).
(3) Sense of guilt: "I am ashamed .... for our iniquities" (Ezr 9:6); "of thy lewd way" (Eze 16:27,61); ascribed to idolaters chagrined at worthlessness of idols (Isa 1:29; 44:9,11; 45:16; Jer 2:26); to enemies (Ps 6:10); to wicked (Ps 31:17); to all who forsake God (Jer 17:13); to those who trust in human help, as Israel of Egypt and Assyria, and Moab of Chemosh (Jer 2:36; 48:13); to a mother of wicked children (Jer 50:12).
(4) Repentance causes shame for sin (Jer 31:19; Ro 6:21).
(5) Calamities also, and judgments (Jer 14:3,4; 15:9; 20:11).
(6) Capacity for shame may be lost through long-continued sin (Jer 6:15; 8:12; compare Jer 3:3), exceptionally striking passages on the deadening power of immorality, suggestive of 1Ti 4:2; Titus 1:15.
(7) The grace of Christ delivers from the shame of moral timidity (Ro 1:1; 2Ti 1:18,12,16;1Pe 4:16).
(8) At Christ's second coming His followers will "not be ashamed before him" (1Joh 2:28); at the final judgment He will be ashamed of all who have been ashamed of Him (Mr 8:38; Lu 9:26; compare Mt 10:33; Heb 11:16).
(9) The word lends itself to rich poetic use, e.g. Lebanon, with faded and falling foliage, "is ashamed" (the Revised Version (British and American) "confounded") at the desolations of the land under Sennacherib (Isa 33:9); so great is God's glory in the new Jerusalem that "the sun (is) ashamed" in His presence (Isa 24:23), explaining the glorious figure in Re 21:23; 22:5. (The references in this article are from the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) frequently replaces `ashamed' by `put to shame.') See SHAME.
Dwight M. Pratt
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.