Shame
כְּלִמּוּתStrong’s H3640kelimmut (ke-lim-mut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kelimmut is the Hebrew word usually translated “shame of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.”
Meaning
- Shame, disgrace, ignominy
How it's translated
- and shame of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כְּלִמּוּת kelimmut · shame
shame, disgrace, 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.