Bukh בּוּךְ

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Bukh (Hebrew בּוּךְ, Strong's H943) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to perplex”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to perplex, confuse, be confused
1a) (Niphal) to be confused, be in confusion

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	perplexed (2), entangled (1)
BSB	confusion (1), was in confusion (1), wander in confusion (1)

Every verse with Bukh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus 14:3
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’

Esther 3:15
The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

Joel 1:18
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).