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כָּתַם

ka.tam

be stained

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Strong’s H3799Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

is stained1

In the text

Jeremiah 2:22נִכְתָּם
Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כָּתַם] vb. only Niph. be stained

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.