# חֶרְפָּה (cherpah) Israeli respelling: cher-pah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H2781. 72 Old Testament occurrences. contumely, disgrace, the pudenda King James renderings: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/cherpah-h2781 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 30:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/23) — And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: - [Genesis 34:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/14) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/9) — 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 Gi… - [1 Samuel 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/11/2) — 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 la… - [1 Samuel 17:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/26) — 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 repro… - [1 Samuel 25:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/39) — 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,… - [2 Samuel 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/13) — 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, spea… - [Nehemiah 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/1/3) — 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 J… - [Nehemiah 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/17) — 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… - [Nehemiah 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/4/4) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/9) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/10) — They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against… - [Job 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/5) — If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: - [Psalms 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/15/3) — He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. - [Psalms 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/6) — But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. - [Psalms 31:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/11) — 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… - [Psalms 39:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/8) — Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. - [Psalms 44:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/13) — Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. - [Psalms 69:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/7) — Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. - [Psalms 69:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/9) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/10) — When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. - [Psalms 69:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/19) — Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. - [Psalms 69:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/20) — 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… - [Psalms 71:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/13) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/22) — Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. - [Psalms 78:66](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/66) — And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. - [Psalms 79:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/79/4) — We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. - [Psalms 79:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/79/12) — And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. - [Psalms 89:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/41) — All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. - [Psalms 89:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/50) — Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; - [Psalms 109:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/25) — I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. - [Psalms 119:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/22) — Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. - [Psalms 119:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/39) — Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. - [Proverbs 6:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/33) — A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. - [Proverbs 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/3) — When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. - [Isaiah 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/4/1) — 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… - [Isaiah 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/8) — 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 a… - [Isaiah 30:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/5) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/47/3) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/7) — 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… - [Isaiah 54:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/4) — 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… - [Jeremiah 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/10) — To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word… - [Jeremiah 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/15) — 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… - [Jeremiah 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/40) — And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. - [Jeremiah 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/24/9) — 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 curs… - [Jeremiah 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/18) — 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… - [Jeremiah 31:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/19) — 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, be… - [Jeremiah 42:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/42/18) — 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… - [Jeremiah 44:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/8) — 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… - [Jeremiah 44:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/12) — 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 consum… - [Jeremiah 49:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/13) — 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 the… - [Jeremiah 51:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/51) — We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s… - [Lamentations 3:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/30) — He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. - [Lamentations 3:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/61) — Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; - [Lamentations 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/1) — Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. - [Ezekiel 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/14) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/15) — 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… - [Ezekiel 16:57](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/57) — 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 daugh… - [Ezekiel 21:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/28) — And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The… - [Ezekiel 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/4) — 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… - [Ezekiel 36:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/15) — 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, ne… - [Ezekiel 36:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/30) — 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 heathe… - [Daniel 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/16) — 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 m… - [Daniel 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/18) — 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… - [Daniel 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/12/2) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/14) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/17) — 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… - [Joel 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/19) — 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: an… - [Micah 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/16) — 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 desolat… - [Zephaniah 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/8) — I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themse… - [Zephaniah 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/18) — I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.