בּוּשָׁה

# H0955: בּוּשָׁה (bushāh) – Shame The Hebrew word *bushāh* denotes the state or condition of shame, appearing only four times in the biblical text. As a noun form, it represents shame as a concrete emotional or social state rather than the action of shaming itself. The limited frequency of this particular term suggests it occupied a specific semantic niche within Hebrew vocabulary for expressing this universal human experience. The rarity of *bushāh*'s occurrence—just four instances across the entire biblical corpus—indicates that biblical authors had alternative, perhaps more commonly used terms available for discussing shame. This suggests that while shame was clearly a significant concept in ancient Hebrew thought, this particular lexical form may have carried specific connotations or been reserved for particular contexts that distinguished it from synonymous expressions. Without access to the specific passages where it appears, we cannot determine whether these four occurrences cluster in particular books or narrative contexts, though the limited data suggests the word was neither central to any single biblical tradition nor deprecated as obsolete.