חָפֵר
ḥāpēr
be abashed
Strong's H2659VerbHebrewTWOT 715

חָפֵר (ḥāpēr) is a Hebrew verb meaning be abashed. It appears 17 times in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H2659).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 715)

Range of meaning (TWOT 715)be abashed, ashamed; display shame; blush, disappointed, shame, reproach; be confounded, be brought to confusion, come shame, bring reproach
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

חָפֵר verb: be abashed, ashamed

Strong's H2659 חָפֵר: to blush; figuratively, to be ashamed, disappointed; causatively, to shame, reproach
KJV:be ashamed, be confounded, be brought to confusion (unto shame), come (be put to) shame, bring reproach.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Job 6:20Psalms 35:4Proverbs 13:5

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