KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Disorder, uncertainty, or lack of understanding. Sense 2: Shame, disgrace, or frustrated defeat. Sense 3: Perverse mingling.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Leviticus 18:23
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
The city of confusion is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt, your confusion.
¶ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
¶ The cormorant and the bitterne shall possesse it, the owle also and the rauen shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out vpon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptinesse.
1611 marginal noteOr, pellicane.
1611 marginal noteZeph.2.14. reuel. 18.2.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Behold, they are all vanitie, their works are nothing: their moulten images are winde and confusion.
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded all of them: they shall goe to confusion together that are makers of idoles.
1611 marginal noteChap.44.11.
¶ For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
¶ For your shame you shall haue double; and for confusion they shall reioyce in their portion: therefore in their land they shal possesse the double: euerlasting ioy shalbe vnto them.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.
We lie downe in our shame, and our confusion couereth vs: for we haue sinned against the LORD our God, wee and our fathers from our youth euen vnto this day, and haue not obeied the voice of the LORD our God.
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Doe they prouoke mee to anger, saith the LORD? Doe they not prouoke themselues to the confusion of their owne faces?
But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutours shall stumble, and they shall not preuaile, they shall be greatly ashamed, for they shall not prosper, their euerlasting confusion shall neuer be forgotten.
1611 marginal noteChap. 17.18. and 15.20.
1611 marginal noteChap. 23.40.
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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.
