כֶּחָשׁ
kechâsh · H3586 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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lying
Action by which humans say things that not true in order to deceive or mislead others
ExamplesIsaiah 30:9 For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the LORD;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 2 words
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer · H8267 · treachery, wrongfully, without cause
- Common Hebrew noun for falsehood/lying, frequently used in similar contexts to denote deceptive speech or behavior
- מִרְמָה mirmâh · H4820 · falsehood, deceit, treachery
- Hebrew noun denoting deceit or treachery, overlapping semantically with lying/deception though emphasizing the treacherous aspect
Contrasting words 1 word
- אֶמֶת ʼemeth · H571 · faithfulness, reliability, trustworthiness
- Hebrew noun for truth/faithfulness, the clear lexical opposite of lying/falsehood in biblical Hebrew
In the other Testament 1 word
- ψεῦδος pseûdos · G5579 · lie, falsehood
- Greek noun denoting a lie or falsehood, the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew terms denoting lying/deception in the LXX
Semantic domains 1 entry
- False002001003007
- The word names lying or falsehood, deceptive speech, in keeping with its glossed sense "lying."
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3586. kechash [כֶּחָשׁ] adjective deceptive, false (on formation see BaNB 50 Ges§ 84b) —…
[כֶּחָשׁ] adjective deceptive, false (on formation see BaNB 50 Ges§ 84b) — כֶּחָשִׁים בָּנִים Isa 30:9 (|| מְרִי עַם).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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