כַּחַשׁ
kachash · H3585 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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leanness, gauntness
State in which humans have lost body volume, possibly as a result of sickness
ExamplesJob 16:8 “And You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my infirmity rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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lies
Action by which humans say things that not true in order to deceive or mislead others
ExamplesPsalm 59:12 On account of the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, May they even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they tell.
Hosea 7:3 With their wickedness they make the king happy, And the officials with their lies.
Hosea 10:13 You have plowed wickedness, you have harvested injustice, You have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your way, in your many warriors,
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יmy 1
- הֶםtheir 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוּםto arise 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- מִןfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פְּרִיfruit, produce 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 4 words
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer · H8267 · treachery, wrongfully, without cause
- Both the target term and שֶׁקֶר (sheqer, H8267) denote lies and falsehood. The shared sense of dishonesty is genuine, though the target term is rare (attested only a handful of times), so the relationship, while real, rests mainly on this gloss overlap.
- רְמִיָּה rᵉmîyâh · H7423 · lazy, slothful, idle
- Both words denote falsehood or deception; כַּחַשׁ centers on “lies, lying” and רְמִיָּה on “deceit, guile.”
- כָּזָב kâzâb · H3577 · falsehood, lie, lies
- Both words denote falsehood and lies; they are distinct Hebrew words for lying and deception that could substitute in similar contexts.
- תֹּךְ tôk · H8496 · fraud
- Both כַּחַשׁ (kachash, H3585) and תֹּךְ (tôk, H8496) denote falsehood or deception, lying versus deceit or fraud, and could substitute for one another in contexts requiring vocabulary for dishonesty; both are rare words.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ψεῦδος pseûdos · G5579 · lie, falsehood
- Greek ψεῦδος specifically denotes falsehood as an abstract concept or statement, while Hebrew כַּחַשׁ encompasses both the semantic field of lying/deception and a distinct physical sense of leanness/emaciation—the Greek term translates only the deception/falsehood component of the Hebrew polysemy.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Thin002001001064
- The noun names leanness, a thin or wasted physical condition, in keeping with its glossed sense "leanness."
- False002001003007
- The noun also names lies or lying, deceptive speech, in keeping with its glossed sense "lies, lying."
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3585. kachash כַּ֫חַשׁ noun masculineJob 16:8 1 lying. 2 leanness; — absolute ׳כ Hos…
כַּ֫חַשׁ noun masculineJob 16:8
1 lying.
2 leanness; — absolute ׳כ Hos 12:1-2t.; כָּ֑חַשׁ Hos 10:13; suffix כַּחֲשִׁי Job 16:8; plural suffix כַּחֲשֵׁיהֶם Hos 7:3; —
1 lying, כ ׳מְּרִי אֲכַלְתֶּם Hos 10:13 ye have eaten the fruit of lying; Hos 7:3 (|| רָעָה), Hos 12:1; of Nineveh, ׳כ מְלֵאָה מֶּרֶק Nah 3:1 of lying (and) robbery it is full; Psa 59:13 (|| אָלָה).
2 of Job's affliction Job 16:8 my leanness hath risen up against me (compare Psa 109:24; ᵑ7 J Gen 41:27; Ecc 12:5; Talmud כחשׁא; > my lying, i.e. my affliction regarded as a lying witness, Di Buhl and others)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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