Word

כְּמוֹשׁ

Kᵉmôwsh · H3645 · Hebrew · proper noun · 8 occurrences

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Person

Chemoshfirst named in Numbers 21:298 verses

Meanings

Chemosh

A deity who was the national deity of Moab

Examples
Numbers 21:29 “Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, To an Amorite king, Sihon.
Judges 11:24 ‘Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatever the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess it.
1 Kings 11:7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, on the mountain that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abhorrent idol of the sons of Ammon.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 2 groups

אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 2
שִׁקּוּץdetestable thing, abomination 2

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יָצָאto go out 1
יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 3
מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

עַםpeople 2

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Deities003001004: Chemosh is the name of the national god of Moab, referenced repeatedly in accounts of Israel's contact with Moab and Solomon's apostasy, so this entry is classed as the name of a deity.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3645. Kemosh or Kemish כְּמוֺשׁ proper name, of a divinity Chemosh (כמש MI3. 5. 9. 12.…

H3645. Kemosh
or Kemish כְּמוֺשׁ proper name, of a divinity Chemosh (כמש MI3. 5. 9. 12. 13. 14. 18. 19. 32. 23 also כמש עשתר Jer 1:17 and proper name, masculine כמשמלך Jer 1:1; Assyrian Kammusunadbi, a king of Moab SchrCOT i, 281; = KAT2, 288; compare further BaeRel 13 f. 238, 256 NöZMG 1888, 471; ᵐ5 Ξαμώς); — god of the Moabites to whom Solomon erected a high place 1Ki 11:7, 1Ki 11:33; 2Ki 23:13; Jer 48:7 (Kt כמישׁ), Jer 48:13. Moab is ׳עַםכֿ Num 21:29 (ode) people of Chemosh, and Moabites his sons and daughters, compare Jer 48:46. He is said to be also the God of the Ammonites Jdg 11:25 (probably an error BaeRel 15 GFM).
כמז (√ of following; meaning dubious; Arabic is bunch, heap).
כמישׁ Jer 48:7 Kt, see כְּמוֺשׁ. above
כמן (√ of following (si vera l); perhaps be hidden; compare Aramaic כְּמַן, , lie in ambush; Arabic id. is denominative from loan-word according to Frä243).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Deities8 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