כָּלַםkâlam
be humiliated
Pronunciation: kaw-lawm' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3637
Meanings
Niph`al: be humiliated, ashamed, put to shame, dishonoured, confounded (Jeremiah 22:22; Jeremiah 31:19; Ezra 9:6)
1. be humiliated, ashamed (Numbers 12:14; 2 Samuel 10:5; 1 Chronicles 19:5)
2. be put to shame, dishonoured, confounded (Jeremiah 22:22; Ezekiel 36:32; Jeremiah 31:19)
Hiph`il
1. put to shame, = insult, humiliate (1 Samuel 20:34; 1 Samuel 25:7; 1 Samuel 25:15)
2. exhibit shame (Jeremiah 6:15)
Hoph`al
1. (compare Hiph`il 1) (1 Samuel 25:15)
2. they were put to shame, dishonoured, confounded (Jeremiah 14:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 38 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 12:14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had done nothing more than spit in her face, wouldn’t she be defiled for seven days? So keep her outside the camp for seven days, and after that she may be accepted back.”
- Judges 18:7 So the five men went on to the town of Laish, where they noticed the people living carefree lives, like the Sidonians; they were peaceful and secure. The people were also wealthy because their land was very fertile. And they lived a great distance from Sidon and had no allies nearby.
- Ruth 2:15 When Ruth went back to work again, Boaz ordered his young men, “Let her gather grain right among the sheaves without stopping her.
- 1 Samuel 20:34 Jonathan left the table in fierce anger and refused to eat on that second day of the festival, for he was crushed by his father’s shameful behavior toward David.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 I am told that it is sheep-shearing time. While your shepherds stayed among us near Carmel, we never harmed them, and nothing was ever stolen from them.
- 1 Samuel 25:15 These men have been very good to us, and we never suffered any harm from them. Nothing was stolen from us the whole time they were with us.
See every passage
- Numbers 12:14
- Judges 18:7
- Ruth 2:15
- 1 Samuel 20:34, 25:7, 25:15
- 2 Samuel 10:5, 19:3
- 1 Chronicles 19:5
- 2 Chronicles 30:15
- Ezra 9:6
- Job 11:3, 19:3
- Psalms 35:4, 40:14, 44:9, 69:6, 70:2, 74:21
- Proverbs 25:8, 28:7
- Isaiah 41:11, 45:16, 45:17, 50:7, 54:4
- Jeremiah 3:3, 6:15, 8:12, 14:3, 22:22, 31:19
- Ezekiel 16:27, 16:54, 16:61, 36:32, 43:10, 43:11
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).