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Strong's H2781 חֶרְפָּה (cherpah)

Cherpah means “rebuke” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2781 — kerion in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2781
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 72
Books 17

Strong's H2781 Quick Answer

Strong's H2781 חֶרפָּה (cherpah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. cherpah (kher-paw') n-f. 1. contumely, disgrace, the pudenda [from H2778] It has 72 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include reproach, shame, rebuke, reproaches, and reproacheth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
cherpah (kher-paw') n-f. 1. contumely, disgrace, the pudenda [from H2778]
Usage
72 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
reproach, shame, rebuke, reproaches, and reproacheth

Meaning and Definition

cherpah (kher-paw') n-f. 1. contumely, disgrace, the pudenda [from H2778] KJV: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame. Root(s): H2778

Original Word
חֶרפָּה
Transliteration
cherpah
Derivation
Root: חרף First root strongs: 2778
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2781. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

reproach

Usage: 1) reproach, scorn 1a) taunt, scorn (upon enemy) 1b) reproach (resting upon condition of shame, disgrace) 1c) a reproach (an object)

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How Strong's H2781 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render cherpah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

reproach Genesis 30:23 64× shame 2 Samuel 13:13 rebuke Isaiah 25:8 reproaches Psalms 69:9 reproacheth Psalms 74:22

How Strong's H2781 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 72 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2781 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2781 in the Old Testament

72 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 30:23 KJV

And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

Genesis 34:14 KJV

And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

Joshua 5:9 KJV

And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.

Usage Excerpts

First 72 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2781.

Genesis 30:23 Old Testament, KJV
And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:
Genesis 34:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
Joshua 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
1 Samuel 11:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
1 Samuel 17:26 Old Testament, KJV
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Samuel 25:39 Old Testament, KJV
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
2 Samuel 13:13 Old Testament, KJV
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
Nehemiah 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Nehemiah 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Nehemiah 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Nehemiah 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
Job 16:10 Old Testament, KJV
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Job 19:5 Old Testament, KJV
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Psalms 15:3 Old Testament, KJV
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Psalms 22:6 Old Testament, KJV
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Psalms 31:11 Old Testament, KJV
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms 39:8 Old Testament, KJV
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms 44:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 69:7 Old Testament, KJV
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psalms 69:9 Old Testament, KJV
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms 69:10 Old Testament, KJV
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms 69:19 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Psalms 69:20 Old Testament, KJV
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 71:13 Old Testament, KJV
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Psalms 74:22 Old Testament, KJV
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms 78:66 Old Testament, KJV
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 79:4 Old Testament, KJV
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79:12 Old Testament, KJV
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Psalms 89:41 Old Testament, KJV
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
Psalms 89:50 Old Testament, KJV
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Psalms 109:25 Old Testament, KJV
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Psalms 119:22 Old Testament, KJV
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:39 Old Testament, KJV
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Proverbs 6:33 Old Testament, KJV
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Proverbs 18:3 Old Testament, KJV
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Isaiah 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Isaiah 25:8 Old Testament, KJV
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah 30:5 Old Testament, KJV
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isaiah 47:3 Old Testament, KJV
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
Isaiah 51:7 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
Isaiah 54:4 Old Testament, KJV
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Jeremiah 6:10 Old Testament, KJV
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Jeremiah 15:15 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Jeremiah 20:8 Old Testament, KJV
For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Jeremiah 23:40 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 24:9 Old Testament, KJV
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 29:18 Old Testament, KJV
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jeremiah 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah 42:18 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
Jeremiah 44:8 Old Testament, KJV
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 44:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah 49:13 Old Testament, KJV
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Jeremiah 51:51 Old Testament, KJV
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
Lamentations 3:30 Old Testament, KJV
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3:61 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Ezekiel 5:14 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Ezekiel 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 16:57 Old Testament, KJV
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Ezekiel 21:28 Old Testament, KJV
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
Ezekiel 22:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Ezekiel 36:15 Old Testament, KJV
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 36:30 Old Testament, KJV
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Daniel 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Daniel 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
Daniel 12:2 Old Testament, KJV
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Hosea 12:14 Old Testament, KJV
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.
Joel 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Joel 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
Micah 6:16 Old Testament, KJV
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Zephaniah 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah 3:18 Old Testament, KJV
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2781, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 20 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 12 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 7 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 2 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H2781 FAQ

What does cherpah (חֶרְפָּה) mean?

Cherpah (Strong's H2781) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "rebuke". cherpah (kher-paw') n-f. 1. contumely, disgrace, the pudenda [from H2778]

How many times is cherpah (חֶרְפָּה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 72 linked usages for Strong's H2781 across 17 books.

Where can I study cherpah (חֶרְפָּה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2781 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate cherpah (חֶרְפָּה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as reproach, shame, rebuke, reproaches, and reproacheth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.