Strong's #3637: kalam (pronounced kaw-lawm')

a primitive root; properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult:--be (make) ashamed, blush, be confounded, be put to confusion, hurt, reproach, (do, put to) shame.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâlam

1) to insult, shame, humiliate, blush, be ashamed, be put to shame, be reproached, be put to confusion, be humiliated

1a) (Niphal)

1a1) to be humiliated, be ashamed

1a2) to be put to shame, be dishonoured, be confounded

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to put to shame, insult, humiliate, cause shame to

1b2) to exhibit shame

1c) (Hophal)

1c1) to be insulted, be humiliated

1c2) to be put to shame, be dishonoured, be confounded

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 38 times:

 

Numbers 12:14: "had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out"
Judges 18:7: "and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far"
Ruth 2:15: "among the sheaves, and reproach her not:"
1 Samuel 20:34: "for David, because his father had done him shame."
1 Samuel 25:7: "which were us, we hurt them not, neither was there aught missing"
1 Samuel 25:15: "were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing,"
2 Samuel 10:5: "the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho"
2 Samuel 19:3: "into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle."
1 Chronicles 19:5: "were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho"
2 Chronicles 30:15: "day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and brought in the burnt offerings"
Ezra 9:6: "And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God:"
Job 11:3: "hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?"
Job 19:3: "These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange"
Psalms 35:4: "Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise"
Psalms 40:14: "to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil."
Psalms 44:9: "But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies."
Psalms 69:6: "be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel."
Psalms 70:2: "my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire"
Psalms 74:21: "O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name."
Proverbs 25:8: "thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame."
Proverbs 28:7: "son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father."
Isaiah 41:11: "all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they"
Isaiah 45:16: "They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers"
Isaiah 45:17: "ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end."
Isaiah 50:7: "will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set"
Isaiah 54:4: "thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for be put to shame: for"
Jeremiah 3:3: "and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed."
Jeremiah 6:15: "at all ashamed, neither they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall:"
Jeremiah 8:12: "at all ashamed, neither they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall:"
Jeremiah 14:3: "with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads."
Jeremiah 22:22: "surely shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness."
Jeremiah 31:19: "I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth."
Ezekiel 16:27: "thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way."
Ezekiel 16:54: "That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done,"
Ezekiel 16:61: "Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder"
Ezekiel 36:32: "GOD, be it known and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel."
Ezekiel 43:10: "to the house that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure"
Ezekiel 43:11: "And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form"