kelima · disgrace, shame

What it means

kelima (כְּלִמָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “disgrace, shame”.

Shame, dishonor suffered before others.

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. The embarrassment one suffers before others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• disgrace ×12
• humiliation ×12
• humiliations ×2
• shame ×2
• ignominy ×1
• shames me ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×13
• Micah×1

• Job 20:3

  A correction that shames me I hear, and a spirit from my understanding answers me.

• Psalms 4:2

  Sons of man, how long will my honor be turned into humiliation? How long will you love what is vain and seek a lie? Selah.

• Psalms 35:26

  Let them be ashamed and abashed together, those who are glad at my harm; let them be clothed with shame and humiliation, those who magnify themselves against me.

• Psalms 44:15

  All the day my humiliation is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

• Psalms 69:7

  For for your sake I have borne reproach; humiliation has covered my face.

• Psalms 69:19

  You know my reproach and my shame and my humiliation; before you are all my adversaries.

• Psalms 71:13

  Let them be ashamed, let them be consumed, those who accuse my soul; let them be covered with reproach and humiliation, those who seek my harm.

• Psalms 109:29

  Let my accusers be clothed with humiliation, and let them wrap themselves as in a robe in their shame.

• Proverbs 18:13

  Whoever answers a word before he hears, it is folly to him and humiliation.

• Isaiah 30:3

  And the stronghold of Pharaoh will become for you a shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt a humiliation.

• 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 50:6

  My back I gave to those who struck, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; my face I did not hide from humiliations and spit.

• Isaiah 61:7

  Instead of your shame, a double portion; and instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion; therefore in their land they will possess a double portion; eternal joy will be theirs.

• Jeremiah 3:25

  Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us, for against YHWH our Elohim we have sinned, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not heeded the voice of YHWH our Elohim.”

• Jeremiah 20:11

  But YHWH is with me like a dreadful mighty man; therefore my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail; they will be greatly ashamed, for they have not succeeded; their eternal ignominy will not be forgotten.

• Jeremiah 51:51

  We are ashamed, for we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the house of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 16:52

  You also, bear your disgrace, you who arbitrated for your sisters; through your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more righteous than you. So you also, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, in making your sisters appear righteous.

• 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 16:63

  so that you may remember and be ashamed, and never again have an opening of the mouth because of your disgrace, when I make expiation for you for all that you have done, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 32:24

  There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, those fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the land of the depths, who put their terror in the land of the living; and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

• Ezekiel 32:25

  In the midst of the slain they have set a bed for her with all her multitude; around him are her graves, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was put in the land of the living, and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; in the midst of the slain he was put.

• Ezekiel 32:30

  There are the princes of the north, all of them, and every Sidonian, who went down with the slain with their terror, because of their might ashamed; and they lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

• Ezekiel 34:29

  And I will raise up for them a planting of renown, and they will no longer be consumed by famine in the land, nor will they bear any longer the disgrace of the nations.

• Ezekiel 36:6

  Therefore prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I, in my jealousy and in my fury, have spoken, because the disgrace of the nations you have borne.

• Ezekiel 36:7

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: I have raised my hand; surely the nations that are around you, they will bear their disgrace.

• Ezekiel 36:15

  And I will not let you hear any longer the disgrace of the nations, and the reproach of the peoples you will not bear any longer, and your nation you will not cause to stumble any longer, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 39:26

  And they will bear their shame and all their infidelity with which they were unfaithful to me, when they live on their own ground securely, and no one makes them afraid,

• Ezekiel 44:13

  And they shall not come near to me to serve as priests for me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the most holy things; and they shall bear their shame and their abominations that they have committed.

• Micah 2:6

  “Do not drip words,” they drip words; “one must not drip words about these things; humiliations will not depart.”

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