KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Disorder, uncertainty, or lack of understanding. Sense 2: Shame, disgrace, or frustrated defeat. Sense 3: Perverse mingling.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Leviticus 18:23
Complete exact-word concordance
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
For where enuying and strife is, there is confusion, and euery euill worke.
1611 marginal noteGr. tumult or vnquietnesse.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A disorderlie mingling.
In a general sense, a mixture of several things promiscuously; hence, disorder; irregularity; as the confusion of tongues at Babel. […] A blending or confounding; indistinct combination; opposed to distinctness or perspicuity; as a confusion of ideas.
