Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3639

כְּלִמָּה

kelimmahkel-im-maw'

shame

30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kᵉlimmâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3639is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 23
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3639

disgrace

The King James renders it: confusion, dishonour, reproach, shame.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

kelimmah is rendered "shame". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Thirteen of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.

The first use

I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

Job 20:3כְּלִמָּתִ֣י

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirteen of the word's thirty uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • disgrace their5
  • and ignominy4
  • disgrace your4
  • ignominy3
  • insult of3
  • into ignominy2
  • and ignominy my1
  • disgrace our1
  • from insults1
  • ignomini1
  • ignominy my1
  • ignominy of1

and 3 more, 30 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

כְּלִיkeliarticle/utensilUses325
כְּלַלkelalto completeUses7
כְּלוּבkelubbasketUses3
כְּלִיאkeliprisonUses2
כְּלוּלָהkelulahbetrothalUses1
כְּלִמּוּתkelimmuthshameUses1

The words it stands beside

All 30, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

23 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • כְּלִמַּ֥ת3
  • וּכְלִמָּ֑ה2
  • כְּלִמָּתִ֣י2
  • כְלִמָּתֵ֔ךְ2
  • כְלִמָּתָ֖ם2
  • כְּלִמָּתָ֔ם2
  • בַכְּלִמָּ֔ה1
  • וּכְלִמָּ֖ה1
  • וּכְלִמָּֽה׃1
  • וּכְלִמָּתִ֑י1
  • כְלִמָּ֣ה1
  • כְלִמָּ֖ה1

and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HNcfsc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular4HC/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular4HNcfsc/Sp2fs
  • noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp1bs
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcfsc/Sp1bp
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural1HR/Ncfpa
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa

Job

one use
  • I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

    Job 20:3

    • כְּלִמָּתִ֣יkelimatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: insult my

Psalms

seven uses
  • How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

    Psalms 4:2

    • לִ֭כְלִמָּהlikhlimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into ignominy
  • May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

    Psalms 35:26

    • וּכְלִמָּ֑הukhelimahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and ignominy
  • All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

    Psalms 44:15

    • כְּלִמָּתִ֣יkelimatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: ignominy my
  • For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

    Psalms 69:7

    • כְלִמָּ֣הkhelimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: ignominy
  • You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

    Psalms 69:19

    • וּכְלִמָּתִ֑יukhelimaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and ignominy my
  • May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.

    Psalms 71:13

    • וּכְלִמָּ֑הukhelimahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and ignominy
  • May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

    Psalms 109:29

    • כְּלִמָּ֑הkelimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: ignominy

Proverbs

one use
  • He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him.

    Proverbs 18:13

    • וּכְלִמָּֽה׃ukhelimahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and ignominy

Isaiah

four uses
  • But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

    Isaiah 30:3

    • לִכְלִמָּֽה׃likhlimahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into ignominy
  • They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.

    Isaiah 45:16

    • בַכְּלִמָּ֔הvakelimahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the ignominy
  • 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 50:6

    • מִכְּלִמּ֖וֹתmikelimotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: from insults
  • 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.

    Isaiah 61:7

    • וּכְלִמָּ֖הukhelimahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and ignominy

Jeremiah

three uses
  • 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 3:25

    • כְּלִמָּתֵנוּ֒kelimatenunoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: disgrace our
  • 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 20:11

    • כְּלִמַּ֥תkelimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: ignominy of
  • “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.”

    Jeremiah 51:51

    • כְלִמָּ֖הkhelimahnoun · feminine singulartagged: ignominy

Ezekiel

thirteen uses
  • 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 16:52

    • כְלִמָּתֵ֗ךְkhelimatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: disgrace your
    • כְלִמָּתֵ֔ךְkhelimatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: disgrace your
  • So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.

    Ezekiel 16:54

    • כְלִמָּתֵ֔ךְkhelimatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: disgrace your
  • 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 16:63

    • כְּלִמָּתֵ֑ךְkelimatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: disgrace your
  • 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 32:24

    • כְלִמָּתָ֖םkhelimatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: disgrace their
  • 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 32:25

    • כְלִמָּתָם֙khelimatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: disgrace their
  • 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 32:30

    • כְלִמָּתָ֖םkhelimatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: disgrace their
  • 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 34:29

    • כְּלִמַּ֥תkelimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: insult of
  • 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 36:6

    • כְּלִמַּ֥תkelimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: insult of
  • 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 36:7

    • כְּלִמָּתָ֥םkelimatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: insult their
  • 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 36:15

    • כְּלִמַּ֣תkelimatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: insult of
  • 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 39:26

    • כְּלִמָּתָ֔םkelimatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: disgrace their
  • 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.

    Ezekiel 44:13

    • כְּלִמָּתָ֔םkelimatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: disgrace their

Micah

one use
  • “Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

    Micah 2:6

    • כְּלִמּֽוֹת׃kelimotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: ignomini

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →