חָפֵר châphêr — to blush
Translated in the KJV as be ashamed, be confounded, be brought to confusion, come shame, bring reproach.
a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as H2658 through the idea of detection); to blush; figuratively, to be ashamed, disappointed; causatively, to shame, reproach.
châphêr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1Jussive 1
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›