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# קָלוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7036

**ignominy** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ignominy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7036/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָלוֹן: n.m. ignominy, dishonour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7036/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 11:2 ignominy, dishonour;—abs. ק׳ Ho 4:7 +; cstr. קְלוֹן Is 22:18; sf. קְלוֹנֵךְ Je 13:26 +;— of national ignominy Ho 4:7, 18 (dub. line, v. Che Now), Je 46:12 (read prob. קוֹלֵךְ, so 𝔊 Gie CoHpt), Hb 2:16 ψ 83:17 of nation under fig. of woman, = pudenda, Je 13:26 Na 3:5 (‖ מַעְרֵךְ). personal dishonour, disgrace, of Shebna, as disgrace to his lord’s house Is 22:18 (opp. כְּבוֹדֶ֑ךָ); individ., Jb 10:15 Pr 3:35 (opp. כָּבוֹד), 6:33; 9:7; 11:2; 12:16; 13:18 (opp. יְכֻבָּ֑ד), 18:3; 22:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shame (15); O disgrace (1); of shame (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 3:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.35/#tree)

כָּ֭בוֹד חֲכָמִ֣ים יִנְחָ֑לוּ וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים מֵרִ֥ים קָלֽוֹן׃פ

*Word for word:* honor wise.\[people\] they.will.inherit and fools \[is\].lifting.up shame

*JPS 1917:* The wise shall inherit honour; but as for the fools, they carry away shame.

[Psalms 83:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.17/#tree)

מַלֵּ֣א פְנֵיהֶ֣ם קָל֑וֹן וִֽיבַקְשׁ֖וּ שִׁמְךָ֣ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* fill faces their shame so that.they.may.seek name your O.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7036.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7036/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).