כְּלִמָּה kelimmah
Hebrew word for “shame” · Strong’s H3639 · used 30 times in 29 verses
Meaning
1) disgrace, reproach, shame, confusion, dishonour, insult, ignominy; 1a) insult, reproach; 1b) reproach, ignominy
How it is translated
Glosses given for kelimmah in context, with how often each is used:
- ignominy 12
- disgrace 10
- insults 4
- insult 2
- become ignominy 1
- ignominies 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 16 (3), Ezekiel 32 (3), Ezekiel 36 (3), Psalms 69 (2), Job 20 (1), Psalms 4 (1), Psalms 35 (1), Psalms 44 (1), Psalms 71 (1), Psalms 109 (1)
Forms
- כלמתם 6
- וכלמה 4
- כלמת 4
- כלמתך 4
- כלמה 3
- כלמתי 2
- לכלמה 2
- וכלמתי 1
- בכלמה 1
- מכלמות 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with kelimmah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- בֹּשֶׁת boshet “shame” 7
- נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 12
- בּוֹשׁ bush “be ashamed” 8
- חֶרְפָּה cherpah “reproach” 5
- חִתִּית chittit “terror” 3
- כָּסָה kasah “to cover” 4
- עָרֵל arel “uncircumcised” 3
- בּוֹר bor “pit” 3
- יְהֹוִה yehovih “YHWH/God” 4
- חָלָל chalal “slain” 3
- שָׂטַן satan “to oppose” 2
- אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 4
Key verses
The verses using kelimmah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 4:2 — O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- Psalms 35:26 — Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against…
- Psalms 69:7 — Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
- Isaiah 50:6 — I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
- Isaiah 61:7 — For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting…
- Jeremiah 3:25 — We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day,…
- Jeremiah 20:11 — But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they…
- 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 house.
- Ezekiel 16:52 — Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than…
- Ezekiel 16:63 — That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast…
- Ezekiel 32:24 — There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of…
- Micah 2:6 — Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
See all 29 verses in the Word Atlas
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.