קָלוֹן I, degradation, disgrace, opp. כָּבוֹד. Gen. R. s. 1, a. e. בקְלוֹן חבירו, v. כָּבֵד I. Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXIX המכבד … שנפטר ממנו בק׳ he that honors his fellow-man for the sake of wealth, will finally part with him in disgrace. Snh. 55ᵃ (of an animal that has been carnally abused) תקלה וק׳ בעינן (to condemn it to death) is it necessary that it must have been both a stumbling-block (cause of a scandal) and a disgrace (to the criminal and his survivors)? Ib. זה קָלוֹנוֹ … קלונו מועט in this case (of a Jew being the criminal) his disgrace is great, and in the other (that of a gentile) his disgrace is little (it being not unusual). Ib. והרי אילנות דאין קָלוֹנָן וכ׳ but in the case of trees (that have been worshipped and must be destroyed) the disgrace through them is not great, and yet &c. Esth. R. introd. to Par. 3, v. קוּא; a. fr.—Esp. prostitution, house of prostitution; sodomy. Lam. R. to I, 16 אספסיאנוס … להושיבן בק׳ של רומי Vespasian filled three ships with the nobles of Jerusalem to place them in the Roman houses of prostitution. Ib. to IV, 2 תינוק אחד … בק׳ a Jewish boy is in prison doomed to prostitution; Y. Hor. III, 48ᵇ. Ib. שניהם עומדין בק׳ וכ׳ if a man and a woman are (in prison) threatened with exposure to prostitution, the redemption of the man has the precedence &c.; a. fr.—Trnsf. idolatrous statue or temple. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᶜ top (in Chald. dict.) כד דמך … נפל ק׳ דטיבריא when R. H. died, the idol (or temple) of Tiberias fell in (cmp. טִימִי I).