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
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.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe and brought to confusion, that deuise my hurt.
1611 marginal notePsal.40.15. & 70.3.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee cloathed with shame and dishonour, that magnifie themselues against me.
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath couered me.
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
IN thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
¶ In thee, O LORD, doe I put my trust, let me neuer be put to confusion.
1611 marginal notePsal.31.2.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: and let them couer them selues with their owne confusion, as with a mantle.
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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.
