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כָּלַם H3637

H3637 is the Hebrew word כָּלַם, transliterated kâlam and said kaw-lawm'. The King James Version most often renders it ashamed.

Word: כָּלַםTransliteration: kâlamSaid: kaw-lawm'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 34 verses

What it means

properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult.

Where it comes from

a primitive root.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 27 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

ashamed 7×confounded 6×blush 3×hurt 2×put to shame 2×should she not be ashamed 1×might put them to shame 1×done him shame 1×being ashamed 1×reproached 1×put us to shame 1×put to confusion 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: be (make) ashamed, blush, be confounded, be put to confusion, hurt, reproach, (do, put to) shame.

Verses using כָּלַם

All 34 verses, quoted in full.

Numbers 12:14 · KJV

And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

Judges 18:7 · KJV

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

1 Samuel 20:34 · KJV

So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

1 Samuel 25:7 · KJV

And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:15 · KJV

But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

2 Samuel 10:5 · KJV

When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

2 Samuel 19:3 · KJV

And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

1 Chronicles 19:5 · KJV

Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

2 Chronicles 30:15 · KJV

Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

Ezra 9:6 · KJV

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

Job 19:3 · KJV

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

Psalm 35:4 · KJV

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Psalm 40:14 · KJV

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalm 44:9 · KJV

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Psalm 69:6 · KJV

Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

Psalm 70:2 · KJV

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Psalm 74:21 · KJV

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Proverbs 28:7 · KJV

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

Isaiah 41:11 · KJV

Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Isaiah 45:16 · KJV

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Isaiah 45:17 · KJV

But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Isaiah 50:7 · KJV

For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 54:4 · KJV

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

Jeremiah 6:15 · KJV

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:12 · KJV

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 14:3 · KJV

And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

Jeremiah 22:22 · KJV

The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Jeremiah 31:19 · KJV

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Ezekiel 16:27 · KJV

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

Ezekiel 16:54 · KJV

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.

Ezekiel 16:61 · KJV

Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

Ezekiel 36:32 · KJV

Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

Ezekiel 43:10 · KJV

Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.

Ezekiel 43:11 · KJV

And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

Common questions

What does Strong's H3637 mean?

H3637 is the Hebrew word כָּלַם (kâlam), meaning properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult.

How is H3637 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it ashamed (7 times), confounded (6 times), blush (3 times), hurt (2 times), put to shame (2 times), among others.

How many times does H3637 appear in the Bible?

כָּלַם (kâlam) is tagged in 34 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H3637 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.

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