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Hebrew verb · H3582

כָּחַד

kachadkaw-khad'

to hide

32 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kâchad

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3582is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 29
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3582

to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy

The King James renders it: conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

kachad is rendered "to hide". It stands 32 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:18When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-nine different ways.

The first use

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Genesis 47:18נְכַחֵ֣ד

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • you hide6
  • I have hidden2
  • it is hidden2
  • they have hidden2
  • we will hide2
  • and he annihilated1
  • and I annihilated1
  • and I will annihilate it1
  • and let us annihilate them1
  • and the is being destroyed1
  • and to annihilate1
  • and you were destroyed1

and 11 more, 32 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

כָּחַשׁkachashto deceiveUses22
כָּחַלkachalto paintUses1

All 32, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

29 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • נִכְחַ֣ד2
  • נִכְחָֽדוּ׃2
  • תְּכַחֵ֥ד2
  • אֲכַחֵֽד׃1
  • הַנִּכְחָד֤וֹת1
  • וָאַכְחִ֛ד1
  • וְהִכְחַדְתִּֽיו׃1
  • וְהַנִּכְחֶ֙דֶת֙1
  • וַיַּכְחֵ֞ד1
  • וּלְהַכְחִיד֙1
  • וְנַכְחִידֵ֣ם1
  • וַתִּכָּחֵ֖ד1

and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular4HVpj2ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVNp3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVNp3cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural2HVpi1cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVpp1cs
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVpp3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vhcc
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular1HC/Td/VNrfsa
  • Hc/Vhq1cs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vhq1cs/Sp3ms
  • HC/Vhu1cp/Sp3mp1HC/Vhu1cp/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vhw1cs1Hc/Vhw1cs
  • Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms

Genesis

one use
  • When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

    Genesis 47:18

    • נְכַחֵ֣דnekhachedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will hide

Exodus

two uses
  • For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

    Exodus 9:15

    • וַתִּכָּחֵ֖דvatikachedHc/VNw2mstagged: and you were destroyed
  • For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

    Exodus 23:23

    • וְהִכְחַדְתִּֽיו׃vehikhchadtivHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will annihilate it

Joshua

one use
  • So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

    Joshua 7:19

    • תְּכַחֵ֖דtekhachedverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide

1 Samuel

three uses
  • “What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”

    1 Samuel 3:17

    • תְכַחֵ֖דtekhachedverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
    • תְּכַחֵ֤דtekhachedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will hide
  • So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”

    1 Samuel 3:18

    • כִחֵ֖דkhichedverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hid

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.

    2 Samuel 14:18

    • תְכַחֲדִ֤יtekhachadiverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you hide
  • If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”

    2 Samuel 18:13

    • יִכָּחֵ֣דyikachedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is hidden

1 Kings

one use
  • And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.

    1 Kings 13:34

    • וּלְהַכְחִיד֙ulehakhchidconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to annihilate

2 Chronicles

one use
  • and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

    2 Chronicles 32:21

    • וַיַּכְחֵ֞דvaiyakhchedHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he annihilated

Job

seven uses
  • Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

    Job 4:7

    • נִכְחָֽדוּ׃nikhaduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: were they destroyed
  • It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    Job 6:10

    • כִ֝חַ֗דְתִּיkhichadtiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have hidden
  • what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

    Job 15:18

    • כִֽ֝חֲד֗וּkhichaduverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have hidden
  • he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

    Job 15:28

    • נִכְחָד֗וֹתnikhchadotverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: destroyed
  • Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

    Job 20:12

    • יַ֝כְחִידֶ֗נָּהyakhchidenahverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he hides it
  • ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

    Job 22:20

    • נִכְחַ֣דnikhchadverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has been destroyed
  • I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.

    Job 27:11

    • אֲכַחֵֽד׃ʾakhachedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will hide

Psalms

five uses
  • I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

    Psalms 40:10

    • כִחַ֥דְתִּיkhichadtiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have hidden
  • You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

    Psalms 69:5

    • נִכְחָֽדוּ׃nikhchaduverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are hidden
  • We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

    Psalms 78:4

    • נְכַחֵ֨ד׀nekhachedverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will hide
  • saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

    Psalms 83:4

    • וְנַכְחִידֵ֣םvenakhchidemHC/Vhu1cp/Sp3mptagged: and let us annihilate them
  • My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

    Psalms 139:15

    • נִכְחַ֥דnikhchadverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was hidden

Isaiah

one use
  • The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

    Isaiah 3:9

    • כִחֵ֑דוּkhicheduverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have hidden

Jeremiah

three uses
  • Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

    Jeremiah 38:14

    • תְּכַחֵ֥דtekhachedverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
  • If the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide it from us, or we will kill you,’

    Jeremiah 38:25

    • תְּכַחֵ֥דtekhachedverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
  • “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’

    Jeremiah 50:2

    • תְּכַחֵ֑דוּtekhacheduverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you hide

Hosea

one use
  • I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.

    Hosea 5:3

    • נִכְחַ֣דnikhchadverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is hidden

Zechariah

four uses
  • And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

    Zechariah 11:8

    • וָאַכְחִ֛דvaakhchidHc/Vhw1cstagged: and I annihilated
  • Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”

    Zechariah 11:9

    • וְהַנִּכְחֶ֙דֶת֙vehannikhchedetconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: and the is being destroyed
    • תִּכָּחֵ֔דtikachedverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: let it be destroyed
  • For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

    Zechariah 11:16

    • הַנִּכְחָד֤וֹתhanikhchadotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: those are being destroyed

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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