Difference between Whipping Boy and Scapegoat

WHIPPING BOY vs SCAPEGOAT: NOUN

A scapegoat.
A boy formerly raised with a prince or other young nobleman and whipped for the latter's misdeeds.
Someone who is punished for the errors of others
Someone punished for the errors of others

Someone punished for the errors of others
One that is made to bear the blame of others.
A live goat over whose head Aaron confessed all the sins of the children of Israel on the Day of Atonement. The goat, symbolically bearing their sins, was then sent into the wilderness.
One who is made to bear the blame of the misdeeds of others.
A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
Someone who is punished for the errors of others
In the ancient Jewish ritual, a goat on which the chief priest, on the day of atonement, symbolically laid the sins of the people. The goat was then driven into the wilderness. Lev. xvi.

To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.

Stooge, Pilloried, Demonized, Fodder, Lapdog, Pariah, Darling, Patsy, Basher, Vilified, Apologist, Lightning rod, Bogeyman, Punching bag, Scapegoat

Apologist, Bogeyman, Blame, Turkish, Outfall, Footwear, Envoy, Emissary, Outlet, Messenger, Minion, Butt, Culprit, Patsy, Whipping boy

Boogeyman, Malcontent, Stooge, Pilloried, Demonized, Fodder, Lapdog, Pariah, Darling, Patsy, Basher, Vilified, Apologist, Lightning rod, Bogeyman

Apologist, Bogeyman, Blame, Turkish, Outfall, Footwear, Envoy, Emissary, Outlet, Messenger, Minion, Butt, Culprit, Patsy, Whipping boy

So many of them are societal and the practitioner is the convenient whipping boy.
Big Bouw was the whipping boy of the online community for years.
Sanchez appears to be in a desperate situation and, as usual, Gibraltar becomes the whipping boy.
Polygamy was always the easiest whipping boy for federal officials, who really feared something else.
Discussion Questions: How does this play relate and differ to The Whipping Boy novel?
Lay but changed its mind after watching olestra become a whipping boy.
Once the whipping boy of EQ, they are now quite powerful.
Our whipping boy for unemployment in the US.
This is why I was a whipping boy.
Jerry Jones has made Dallas a whipping boy.

With Westbrook essentially untradeable, a scapegoat is needed.
Slatten was a scapegoat for international political considerations.
He will tend to make you his scapegoat.
Borderline Mother who chose me as the scapegoat.
So we look for a scapegoat to blame.
Sex Offender as Scapegoat: The Monstrous Other Within.
Puss had apparently become the scapegoat of Christianity.
But the Scapegoat CANNOT represent Jesus - Why?.
Although the Jews did not identify Satan with their Scapegoat, yet he has been veritably the Scapegoat among devils for two thousand years.
If you are able to identify your scapegoat, he or she is not your scapegoat.