CONFUSION

ISBE

kon-fu'-zhun (bosheth, "shame, paleness," kelimmah, "blushing," tohu; akatastasia, sugchusis): In the Old Testament bosheth ( 1Sa 20:30 ; Ps 109:29 the King James Version) and kelimmah ( Ps 44:15 ; Isa 30:3 ) are the words most frequently translated "confusion"; tohu, "wastiness," "emptiness" is so translated ( Isa 24:10 ; 34:11 ; 41:29 ), also qalon, "lightness," "contempt" ( Job 10:15 = ignominy, the American Standard Revised Version) and tebhel, "profanation" ( Le 18:23 ; 20:12 ); ra`ash, "shaking," "trembling," rendered "confused" in Isa 9:5 the King James Version; compare the Revised Version (British and American). Greek akatashatasia, "instability" is translated "confusion" ( 1Co 14:33 ; Jas 3:16 ); sugchusis, "a pouring out together" ( Ac 19:29 ). In The Wisdom of Solomon 14:26, "changing of kind" (the King James Version) is rendered "confusion of sex." W. L. Walker