Shame
כְּלִמָּהStrong’s H3639kelimmah (ke-lim-mah)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kelimmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ignominy”, “disgrace their” and “disgrace your”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.”
Meaning
- Disgrace, reproach, shame, confusion, dishonour, insult, ignominyinsult, reproach · reproach, ignominy
How it's translated
- ignominy 5
- disgrace their 5
- and ignominy 4
- disgrace your 4
- insult of 3
- insult my 1
- ignominy my 1
- and ignominy my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 12
- Psalms 7
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 3
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 4:2O 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 35:26Let 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 me.
- Psalms 44:15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
- Psalms 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
- Psalms 69:19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
- Psalms 71:13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Hebrew dictionary
כְּלִמָּה kelimmah · shame
1) disgrace, reproach, shame, confusion, dishonour, insult, ignominy 1a) insult, reproach 1b) reproach, ignominy
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHAME, noun
- A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt, or of having done something which injures reputation; or by of that which nature nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
- The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others.
- Reproach; ignominy; derision; contempt.“Ye have born the shame of the heathen” Ezekiel 36:6
- The parts which modesty requires to be covered.
All definitions and other forms of “shame”
- Dishonor; disgrace.
SHAME, verb transitive
- To make ashamed; to excite a consciousness of guilt or of doing something derogatory to reputation; to cause to blush.“I write not these things to shame you” 1 Corinthians 4:14
- To disgrace.
- To mock at.“Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor” Psalms 14:6
SHAME, verb intransitive
To be ashamed.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.