כָּלַם kalam

Hebrew word for “be humiliated” · Strong’s H3637 · used 38 times in 38 verses

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Meaning

1) to insult, shame, humiliate, blush, be ashamed, be put to shame, be reproached, be put to confusion, be humiliated;

How it is translated

Glosses given for kalam in context, with how often each is used:

• humiliated 9
• ashamed 5
• have humiliated 2
• may they be humiliated 2
• will be put to shame 2
• will be ashamed 2
• will she be put to shame 1
• one putting to shame 1
• must humiliate 1
• had put to shame 1
• who are ashamed 1
• one who puts to shame 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 16 (3), 1 Samuel 25 (2), Isaiah 45 (2), Ezekiel 43 (2), Numbers 12 (1), Judges 18 (1), Ruth 2 (1), 1 Samuel 20 (1), 2 Samuel 10 (1), 2 Samuel 19 (1)

Forms

• ויכלמו 5
• נכלמו 3
• ונכלמת 3
• נכלמים 2
• נכלמתי 2
• והכלמו 2
• תכלם 1
• מכלים 1
• תכלימוה 1
• הכלמו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kalam more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בּוֹשׁ bush “be ashamed” 17
• חָפֵר chapher “be ashamed” 4
• סוּג sug “to turn” 3
• יָדַע yada “to know” 6
• אָחוֹר achor “back” 3
• אֱנוֹשׁ enosh “human” 5
• בָּקַשׁ baqash “to seek” 4
• גַּם gam “also” 5
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 5
• חָפֵץ chaphets “delighting” 2
• רָעָה raah “to pasture” 3
• אַל al “not” 4

Key verses

The verses using kalam that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Ezra 9:6 — And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up…
• Psalms 40:14 — Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
• Proverbs 25:8 — Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
• Isaiah 41:11 — Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
• Isaiah 45:17 — But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• Isaiah 50:7 — For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
• 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 thy youth, and…
• Jeremiah 3:3 — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
• Jeremiah 6:15 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that…
• Jeremiah 8:12 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that…
• 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, because I did bear the…
• Ezekiel 16:61 — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.