Hebrew verb · H3584
כָּחַשׁ
kachashkaw-khash'
to deceive
22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâchash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3584is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3584
to be untrue, in word (to lie, feign, disown) or deed (to disappoint, fail, cringe)
The King James renders it: deceive, deny, dissemble, fail, deal falsely, be found liars, (be-) lie, lying, submit selves.
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
kachash is rendered "to deceive". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:15But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
Genesis 18:15וַתְּכַחֵ֨שׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he will deny2
- they cringe2
- and deceiving1
- and I will deny1
- and it will deny1
- and she denied1
- and we have denied1
- he lied1
- I denied1
- it fails1
- it has become lean1
- it will fail1
and 8 more, 22 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.
All 22, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 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
- וְכִ֥חֶשׁ2
- וְיִכָּֽחֲשׁ֤וּ1
- וְכִחֵ֨שׁ1
- וְכַחֵשׁ֙1
- וְכַחֵ֔שׁ1
- וְכִחַשְׁתִּי֮1
- וַתְּכַחֵ֨שׁ1
- יְכַ֥חֶשׁ1
- יְֽכַחֲשׁ֖וּ1
- יְכַחֲשׁוּ־1
- יְכַֽחֲשׁוּ־1
- יִתְכַּֽחֲשׁוּ־1
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpq3ms3Hc/Vpq3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVpi3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)2HC/Vpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVpp3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpp3ms
- HC/VNu3mp1HC/VNu3mp
- Hc/Vpq1cs1Hc/Vpq1cs
- Hc/Vpw3fs1Hc/Vpw3fs
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HVpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVpi2mp
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nun1HVpi2mp/Sn
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
Genesis
one use
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
- וַתְּכַחֵ֨שׁvatekhacheshHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she denied
Leviticus
three uses
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
- וְכִחֵ֨שׁvekhicheshHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will deny
or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—
- וְכִ֥חֶשׁvekhicheshHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will deny
You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
- תְכַחֲשׁ֥וּtekhachashuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will deceive
Deuteronomy
one use
Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
- וְיִכָּֽחֲשׁ֤וּveyikachashuHC/VNu3mptagged: so they may cringe
Joshua
two uses
Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
- כִּֽחֲשׁ֔וּkichashuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have deceived
And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”
- תְּכַחֲשׁ֖וּןtekhachashunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you should deny
2 Samuel
one use
Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
- יִתְכַּֽחֲשׁוּ־yitkachashu-verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they cringed
1 Kings
one use
Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
- כִּחֵ֖שׁkicheshverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he lied
Job
two uses
If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
- וְכִ֥חֶשׁvekhicheshHc/Vpq3mstagged: and it will deny
this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.
- כִחַ֖שְׁתִּיkhichashtiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I denied
Psalms
four uses
When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
- יְכַחֲשׁוּ־yekhachashu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they cringe
Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
- יְֽכַחֲשׁ֖וּyekhachashuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they cringe
Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
- יְכַֽחֲשׁוּ־yekhachashu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will cringe
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
- כָּחַ֥שׁkachashverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has become lean
Proverbs
one use
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
- וְכִחַשְׁתִּי֮vekhichashtiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will deny
Isaiah
one use
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- וְכַחֵשׁ֙vekhacheshconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and we have denied
Jeremiah
one use
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
- כִּֽחֲשׁוּ֙kichashuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have denied
Hosea
two uses
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- וְכַחֵ֔שׁvekhacheshconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and deceiving
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
- יְכַ֥חֶשׁyekhacheshverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will fail
Habakkuk
one use
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- כִּחֵשׁ֙kicheshverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it fails
Zechariah
one use
And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
- כַּחֵֽשׁ׃kacheshverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to deceive
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.
