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title: כְּלִמּוּת — ignominy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּלִמּוּת (3640), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: ignominy. BDB 1906: n.f. ignominy. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּלִמּוּת

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«כְּלִמּוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ignominy** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3640 · **BDB:** כְּלִמּוּת

### Glosses

shame (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ignominy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3640/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. ignominy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3640/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ignominy;—only cstr. וּכְלִמּוּת עוֹלָם Je 23:40 (‖ הֶרְפַּת עוֹלָם).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּלִמּוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3640/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 23:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.40/)

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וְנָתַתִּ֥י עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם חֶרְפַּ֣ת עוֹלָ֑ם וּכְלִמּ֣וּת עוֹלָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֥א תִשָּׁכֵֽחַ׃ס

*Word for word:* and I.will.put on you a.reproach of.perpetuity and shame of.perpetuity which not it.will.be.forgotten

*JPS 1917:* and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

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