# כָּלַם (kalam) Israeli respelling: ka-lam. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H3637. 38 Old Testament occurrences. properly, to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult King James renderings: be (make) ashamed, blush, be confounded, be put to confusion, hurt, reproach, (do, put to) shame. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kalam-h3637 ## Occurrences - [Numbers 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/12/14) — 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 ca… - [Judges 18:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/7) — 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 Zidon… - [Ruth 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/2/15) — And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: - [1 Samuel 20:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/34) — 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 hi… - [1 Samuel 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/7) — 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… - [1 Samuel 25:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/15) — 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 wer… - [2 Samuel 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/10/5) — 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 be… - [2 Samuel 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/3) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/19/5) — 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 s… - [2 Chronicles 30:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/15) — Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified thems… - [Ezra 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/6) — 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 tres… - [Job 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/3) — Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? - [Job 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/3) — These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. - [Psalms 35:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 my hurt. - [Psalms 40:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/14) — 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 m… - [Psalms 44:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/9) — But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. - [Psalms 69:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/6) — 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… - [Psalms 70:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/70/2) — Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. - [Psalms 74:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/21) — O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. - [Proverbs 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/8) — Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame. - [Proverbs 28:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/7) — Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father. - [Isaiah 41:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/11) — Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee… - [Isaiah 45:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/16) — They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. - [Isaiah 45:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/17) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/50/7) — 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… - [Isaiah 54:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/4) — 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… - [Jeremiah 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/3) — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ash… - [Jeremiah 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/15) — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fa… - [Jeremiah 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/12) — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fa… - [Jeremiah 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/3) — 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 emp… - [Jeremiah 22:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/22) — 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… - [Jeremiah 31:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/19) — 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, be… - [Ezekiel 16:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/27) — Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them… - [Ezekiel 16:54](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/54) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/61) — 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 u… - [Ezekiel 36:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/32) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/10) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/11) — 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, an…