Word

כָּחַד

kâchad · H3582 · Hebrew · 32 occurrences

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Meanings

to be hidden

State in which humans are unaware of certain information

Examples
2 Samuel 18:13 “Otherwise, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have avoided me.”
Psalm 69:5 God, You know my foolishness, And my guilt is not hidden from You.
Psalm 139:15 My frame was not hidden from You When I was made in secret, And skillfully formed in the depths of the earth;
to hide, to conceal

Causative action by which humans refrain from sharing information with others

Examples
Genesis 47:18 But when that year ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
Joshua 7:19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I implore you, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and give praise to Him; and tell me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me.”
1 Samuel 3:17 He said, “What is the word that He spoke to you? Please do not hide it from me. May God do the same to you, and more so, if you hide a single word from me of all the words that He spoke to you!”
to destroy, to efface, to wipe out

Causitive action or process by which humans or deities forcibly terminate the existence of an individual or group of people

Examples
Exodus 9:15 “For had I now put out My hand and struck you and your people with plague, you would then have been eliminated from the earth.
Exodus 23:23 “For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.
1 Kings 13:34 This event also became a sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to wipe it out and eliminate it from the face of the earth.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

29 occurrences in 14 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 7
Not stated: I 5
Not stated: we 3
Not stated: he, she or it 3
Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

12 occurrences in 13 groups

דָּבָרword, thing, matter 3
Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

20 occurrences in 14 groups

מִןfrom+ נִיme 6
Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14

With adverbsAdverbs

19 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 13
אַלnot, do not 6

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כָּחַדto hide, to cut off 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

זָכַרto remember 1
פָּקַדto number, to punish 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 3 words

סָתַם çâtham · H5640 · to stop up, to shut out, to close: Both words overlap in the sense of concealing and hiding (כָּחַד (kâchad, H3582) "conceal, hide"; סָתַם (çâtham, H5640) "hidden, secret, shut up"), and are near-synonyms in contexts where concealment is the focus.
כָּסָה kâçâh · H3680 · to cover, to be covered, to cover oneself: Both the target term and כָּסָה (kâçâh, H3680) ('cover, hide, conceal') genuinely denote actions of concealing or hiding, and are true near-synonyms within that shared sense. The target term has a narrower profile centered on concealment (and destruction), whereas כָּסָה has a much broader range including physical covering, clothing, and many metaphorical extensions — but within the core sense of hiding or concealing, the two are real, substitutable synonyms.
מָחָה mâchâh · H4229 · to wipe, to erase, to blot out: Both words denote actions of causing something to cease to exist or to be known, in the sphere of destroying or concealing.

Contrasting words 1 word

נָגַד nâgad · H5046 · to tell, to inform, to report: The direct lexical opposite of כָּחַד, denoting the act of declaring or making known what would otherwise be concealed.

In the other Testament 1 word

κρύπτω krýptō · G2928 · to keep safe, to cause to be protected, to protect: Greek κρύπτω translates Hebrew כָּחַד in contexts where the concealment sense is primary; the Hebrew term additionally carries destruction/cutting-down senses (desolate, cut off) not present in the Greek verb, which focuses specifically on hiding or covering.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Non-Know002004002008: The verb describes concealing or hiding something from knowledge, keeping information from another, in keeping with its glossed sense "conceal... hide."
Non-Exist002002002006: The verb's glossed sense "cut down (off), desolate" describes bringing something to an end, causing it to no longer exist.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3582. kachad [כָּחַד] verb not in Qal; Pi`el Hiph`il hide, efface; Niph`al (usually)…

H3582. kachad
[כָּחַד] verb not in
Qal; Pi`el Hiph`il hide, efface;
Niph`al (usually) passive (Aramaic אתכחדו be effaced Job 4:7; is revere, Participle venerable, Pa`el put to shame, Ethpa`al be ashamed; Ethiopic deny, apostatize) —
Niph`al Perfect3masculine singular נִכְחַד Hos 5:3 Hos 5:2t.; 3 plural נִכְחָ֑דוּ Job 4:7; Psa 69:6; Imperfect3masculine singular יִכָּחֵד 2Sa 18:13, etc.; Participle נִכְחֶדֶת Zec 11:9; plural נִכְחָדוֺת Zec 11:16; Job 15:28; —
1 be hidden, followed by מִן person, 2Sa 18:13; Hos 5:3; Psa 69:6; Psa 139:15.
2 be effected, destroyed Zec 11:9; Job 4:7; Job 15:28 (נִכְחְדוֺת עָרִים), Job 22:20, followed by הָאָרֶץ מִןֿ Exo 9:15 (J); Participle intransitive of incomplete process = going to ruin Zec 11:9, Zec 11:16.
Pi`el Perfect כִּחֵד 1Sa 3:18; 1Sa 3:1singular כִּחַדְתִּי Job 6:10; Psa 40:11; Psa 40:3plural כִּחֲדוּ Job 15:18; כִּחֵ֑דוּ Isa 3:9; Imperfect2masculine singular תְּכַחֵד Jos 7:19 Jos 7:4t.; 2 feminine singular תְּכַחֲדִי 2Sa 14:18; 2Sa 14:1singular אֲכַחֵד Job 27:11; Job 27:2masculine plural תְּכַחֵ֑דוּ Jer 50:2; Jer 50:1plural נְכַחֵד Gen 47:18; Psa 78:4; — hide, followed by מִן person Gen 47:18 (J), Jos 7:19 (JE), 1Sa 3:17 (twice in verse); 1Sa 3:18; 2Sa 14:18; Jer 38:14, Jer 38:25; Psa 78:4; followed by לְ person Psa 40:11 conceal toward, with reference to, i.e. from; without preposition Isa 3:9; Jer 50:2; Job 15:18; Job 27:11; = disown Job 6:10.
Hiph`il Perfect1singular consecutive suffix וְהִכְחַדְתִּיו Exo 23:23; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיַּכְחֵד2Ch 32:21, suffix יַכְחִידֶנָּה Job 20:12; Job 20:1singular וָאַכְחִד Zec 11:8; Zec 11:1plural suffix וְנַכְחִידֵם Psa 83:5; Infinitive construct לְהַכְחִיד 1Ki 13:34; —
1 hide, in figure לְשֹׁנוֺ תַּחַת יַכְחִידֶנָּה Job 20:12 (object wickedness).
2 efface, annihilate Exo 23:23 (E), 1Ki 13:34 (|| הַשְׁמִיד), Zec 11:8; 2Ch 32:21; followed by מִגּוֺי Psa 83:5, i.e. from being (so that they be not) a nation.
כחח (√ assumed by Thes Buhl and others for following BaNB 79 proposes √ כוח).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Non-Exist11 occurrences Non-Know20 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0