What Does “Ignominy” Mean in the Bible?
A very great dishonor, a public shame.
A detail
- In the Bible: the Letter to the Hebrews says that Jesus endured the cross, despising its shame.
Where it appears in the Bible
Hebrews 12:2; Nehemiah 2:17
What the Bible says
Hebrews 12:2
Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.
Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “ignominia”