Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult
KJV Usage: be (make) ashamed, blush, be confounded, be put to confusion, hurt, reproach, (do, put to) shame
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כָּלַם (ka.lam) — be humiliated. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · כְּלִמָּה · כְּלִמּוּת
Shame | verb nif | ≈ בושׁ · ירא
to be ashamed, to be disgraced = state in which humans experience a feeling of shame, as a result of their own actions or because of what other have done
2SA 10:5 · 2SA 19:4 · 1CH 19:5 · 2CH 30:15 · EZR 9:6 · ISA 54:4 · JER 3:3 · JER 8:12 · EZK 16:27 · EZK 16:54 · EZK 16:61 · EZK 36:32 · EZK 43:10 · EZK 43:11
Shame | verb hif, verb nif, verb hof | ≈ בושׁ · חפר
to put to shame, to disgrace = causative action by which humans cause other humans to experience a feeling of shame
NUM 12:14 · JDG 18:7 · RUT 2:15 · 1SA 20:34 · 1SA 25:7 · 1SA 25:15 · JOB 11:3 · JOB 19:3 · PSA 35:4 · PSA 40:15 · PSA 44:10 · PSA 69:7 · PSA 70:3 · PSA 74:21 · PRO 25:8 · PRO 28:7 · ISA 41:11 · ISA 45:16 · ISA 45:17 · ISA 50:7 · JER 6:15 · JER 14:3 · JER 22:22 · JER 31:19
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[כָּלַם] vb. only Niph. Hoph. be humiliated, Hiph. humiliate Niph. be humiliated, ashamed, put to shame, dishonoured, confounded
Hiph. put to shame = insult, humiliate
exhibit shame
Hoph. we were not insulted, humiliated
they were put to shame, dishonoured, confounded
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