Be stained
כָּתַםStrong’s H3799katam (ka-tam)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Katam is the Hebrew word usually translated “stained”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.”
Meaning
- (Niphal) to be stained, be defiled, be deeply stained
How it's translated
- stained 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כָּתַם katam · be stained
(Niphal) to be stained, be defiled, be deeply stained
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stained” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STAINED, participle passive
Discolored; spotted; dyed; blotted; tarnished.
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.