Strong's Lexicon

H3639

H3639 — כְּלִמָּה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewklimmahnoun femOccurrences: 30TWOT: 987a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3639
Word:כְּלִמָּה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:from H3637
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:30
Transliteration:klimmah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:kel-im-maw'
Meaning:1. disgrace
KJV Renderings:confusion, dishonour, reproach, shame.

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כְּלִמָּה noun feminine insult, reproach, ignominy; — absolute ׳ כ Isa 45:16 + 9 t.; construct כְּלִמַּת Jer 20:11 + 3 t.; suffix כְּלִמָּתִי Job 20:3 + 3 t., etc., plural כְּלִמּוֺת Mic 2:6; Isa 50:6

1. specifically, insult, reproach, ׳ לֹא יִסַּג כ Mic 2:6 reproaches do not cease; מוּסַר כְּלִמָּתִי Job 20:3 = my beshaming (insulting) correction, i.e. the correction which insults me.
2. in general, reproach, ignominy, opposed to כָּבוֺד Ps 4:3 ׳ הלך בַּכּ Isa 45:16 go into ignominy (+ בּוֺשׁ, נִכְלַם); often || בּשֶׁת Isa 30:3; Isa 61:7; Ps 44:16, subject of כִּסָּה Jer 3:25 our ignomity covereth us, so under figure of garment, after לָבַשׁ Ps 35:26 (+ בושׁ, חפר in va), Ps 109:29 || חֶרְפָּה Ps 69:8 (subject of כִּסְּתָה פָּנָ֑י), Jer 51:51 (id.; בושׁ in || clause), Ps 71:13 (+ בושׁ in || clause); || בּשֶׁת + חֶרְפָּה Ps 69:20 || אִוֶּלֶת Prov 18:13 || רֹק Isa 50:6 עוֺלָם ׳ כ Jer 20:11 ( בושׁ in || clause); כְּלִמָּתֵךְ Ezek 16:63 ( id. ||); often in Ezek. ׳ נשׂא כ bear ignominy, Ezek 16:52 (twice in verse) (|| בושׁ), Ezek 16:54 (נִכְלַם in || clause); Ezek 32:24; Ezek 32:25; Ezek 32:30 (all + אֶתיֿוֺרְדֵי בוֺר with those who go down to the pit; reference to ignominious death), Ezek 36:7; Ezek 39:26 (si vera 1. = bear the humiliating sense of underserved kindness from ׳ י; but text dubious, Hi Co, q. v., [׳ כ] נשׁו; Sm Da defend); נאשׂ כְּלִמַּת הַגּוֺיִם, i.e. caused by the nations, Ezek 34:39; Ezek 36:6 also v Ezek 36:15 (|| חֶרְפַּת עַמִּים), probably also Ps 89:51 (read כְּלִמַּת, compare VB Che Bae); כְּלִמָּתָם יְתוֺעֲבוֺתָם אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ ׳ וְנ Ezek 44:13.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כלמה (k’lim-mah’)

Job 20:8

KJV: He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
EHCC: have heard the check of my reproach,

Psalms 4:2

KJV: 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.
EHCC: (38).(will ye turn) my lory into shame ל

Psalms 35:26

KJV: 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.
EHCC: them be clothed wi Shame and dishonour

Psalms 44:15

KJV: My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
EHCC: (16). My confusion (is) continually before

Psalms 69:7

KJV: Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
EHCC: (8). shame hath covered my face,

Psalms 71:13

KJV: Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
EHCC: be covered (with) Cre and dishonour

Psalms 109:29

KJV: Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
EHCC: Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,

Psalms 45:16

KJV: Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
EHCC: they aball go to con your) Cie

Psalms 61:7

KJV: He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
EHCC: and (for) confusion they shall rejoice

Jeremiah 3:25

KJV: 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.
EHCC: our confusion covereth.us:

Jeremiah 20:11

KJV: 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.
EHCC: (their) everlasting confusion shall never

Jeremiah 51:51

KJV: 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.
EHCC: shame hath covered our faces:

Ezekiel 16:52

KJV: 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.
EHCC: bear thine own shame

Ezekiel 82:24

EHCC: 25. yet have they borae their shame

Ezekiel 34:29

KJV: 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.of renown: or, for renownconsumed: Heb. taken away
EHCC: neither bear the shame of the heathen

Ezekiel 36:6

KJV: 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:
EHCC: the shame of the heathen:

Ezekiel 89:26

EHCC: After that they have borne their shame,

Ezekiel 44:13

KJV: 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.
EHCC: זטס they shall bear their shame,

Micah 2:6

KJV: Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.Prophesy ye…: or, Prophesy not as they prophesy: Heb. Drop, etc
EHCC: they shall not take shame,
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