Kelimmah כְּלִמָּה

Kelimmah (Hebrew כְּלִמָּה, Strong's H3639) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “shame”. It occurs 30 times in 29 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Shame

Verses

Every verse with Kelimmah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job

• Job 20:3
  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

Psalms

• Psalm 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.How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
• Psalm 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 me.May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
• Psalm 44:15
  My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
• Psalm 69:7
  Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
• Psalm 69:19
  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
• Psalm 71:13
  Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
• Psalm 109:29
  Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 18:13
  He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.He who answers a matter before he hears it— this is folly and disgrace to him.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 30:3
  Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
• Isaiah 45:16
  They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
• 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.I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
• 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 joy shall be unto them.Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

Jeremiah

• 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, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
• 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 shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
• 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.“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

Ezekiel

• 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 thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
• Ezekiel 16:54
  That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.
• 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 done, saith the Lord God.so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
• 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 the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.Elam is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword— those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
• Ezekiel 32:25
  They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
• Ezekiel 32:30
  There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.All the leaders of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down in disgrace with the slain, despite the terror of their might. They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their shame with those who descend to the Pit.
• Ezekiel 34:29
  And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.And I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.
• Ezekiel 36:6
  Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I have spoken in My burning zeal because you have endured the reproach of the nations.
• Ezekiel 36:7
  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.
• Ezekiel 36:15
  Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”
• Ezekiel 39:26
  After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.
• Ezekiel 44:13
  And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.They must not approach Me to serve Me as priests or come near any of My holy things or the most holy things. They will bear the shame of the abominations they have committed.

Micah

• Micah 2:6
  Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).