kalam · be ashamed, humiliate

What it means

kalam (כָּלַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be ashamed, humiliate”.

Put to shame, humiliate; be put to shame.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To disgrace someone, or be disgraced.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• humiliated ×17
• be ashamed ×5
• blush ×3
• who are ashamed ×2
• had put him to shame ×1
• put her to shame ×1
• put you to shame ×1
• puts you to shame ×1
• putting them to shame ×1
• shames ×1
• others ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×6

• Numbers 12:14

  And YHWH said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be isolated seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be gathered in.”

• Judges 18:7

  So the five men went and came to Laish, and they saw the people who were in it, living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, at rest and secure; and there was no one in the land putting them to shame in anything, no one possessing authority; and they were far from the Sidonians, and they had no dealings with anyone.

• Ruth 2:15

  She rose to glean, and Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not put her to shame.

• 1 Samuel 20:34

  Jonathan rose from the table in hot anger, and he did not eat bread on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved for David, because his father had put him to shame.

• 1 Samuel 25:7

  Now I have heard that you have shearers. Now, the shepherds who are yours were with us; we did not wrong them, and nothing of theirs went missing all the days they were in Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 25:15

  Yet the men were very good to us; we were not wronged, and we did not miss anything all the days we went about with them when we were in the field.

• 2 Samuel 10:5

  They reported it to David, and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

• 2 Samuel 19:3

  The people stole that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

• 1 Chronicles 19:5

  They went and told David about the men, and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

• 2 Chronicles 30:15

  They slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings to the house of YHWH.

• Ezra 9:6

  and I said, “My Elohim, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face, my Elohim, to you, for our iniquities have multiplied higher than our head, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

• Job 11:3

  Shall your idle talk silence men? Shall you mock, and there be none to put you to shame?

• Job 19:3

  These ten times you have put me to shame; you are not ashamed to mistreat me.

• Psalms 35:4

  Let them be ashamed and humiliated, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be abashed, those who plot my harm.

• Psalms 40:14

  Let them be ashamed and abashed together, those who seek my soul to sweep it away; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

• Psalms 44:9

  But you have rejected us and humiliated us, and you do not go out with our armies.

• Psalms 69:6

  Let not those who wait for you be ashamed because of me, Adonai YHWH Tsevaot; let not those who seek you be humiliated because of me, Elohim of Israel.

• Psalms 70:2

  Let them be ashamed and abashed, those who seek my soul; let them turn back and be humiliated, those who desire my harm.

• Psalms 74:21

  Let not the oppressed turn back humiliated; let the afflicted and the needy praise your name.

• Proverbs 25:8

  Do not go out to court hastily, lest— what will you do in the end of it, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

• Proverbs 28:7

  Whoever keeps instruction is an understanding son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

• Isaiah 41:11

  Look, all who are incensed against you will be put to shame and humiliated; they will be as nothing, and they will perish, the men of your dispute.

• Isaiah 45:16

  They were put to shame, and also humiliated, all of them; together they went off in humiliation, the craftsmen of images.

• Isaiah 45:17

  Israel is saved in YHWH with an eternal salvation; you will not be put to shame nor humiliated forever and ever.

• Isaiah 50:7

  But Adonai YHWH helps me; therefore I have not been humiliated; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.

• Isaiah 54:4

  Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; and do not be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; for the shame of your youth you will forget, and the reproach of your widowhood you will not remember anymore.

• Jeremiah 3:3

  And the showers have been withheld, and there has been no late rain; yet the forehead of a prostitute woman you have had; you refused to be ashamed.

• Jeremiah 6:15

  Were they ashamed because they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, and they did not know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them they will stumble, says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 8:12

  Were they ashamed because they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, and to blush they did not know. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble, says YHWH.

• Jeremiah 14:3

  And their nobles send their little ones for water; they come to the pools, they do not find water; they return, their vessels empty; they are ashamed and humiliated, and they cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 22:22

  All your shepherds the wind will shepherd, and your lovers will go into captivity; for then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.

• Jeremiah 31:19

  For after I turned away, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck on my thigh; I was ashamed, and also humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’

• Ezekiel 16:27

  And look, I have stretched out my hand against you and withdrawn your allotted portion, and given you to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your way of infamy.

• Ezekiel 16:54

  so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, when you become a comfort to them.

• Ezekiel 16:61

  And you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, those older than you together with those younger than you; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not by your covenant.

• Ezekiel 36:32

  Not for your sake am I doing it, declares Adonai YHWH; let it be known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 43:10

  You, son of man, declare to the house of Israel the house, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the proportion.

• Ezekiel 43:11

  And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, the form of the house and its arrangement and its exits and its entrances and all its forms and all its statutes, and all its forms and all its instructions make known to them, and write it before their eyes, so that they may keep all its form and all its statutes, and do them.