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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

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.

The other 25 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

  • 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.

כָּחַדkachadto hideUses32
כָּחַלkachalto paintUses1

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.”

    Genesis 18:15

    • 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

    Leviticus 6:2

    • 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—

    Leviticus 6:3

    • וְכִ֥חֶשׁvekhicheshHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will deny
  • You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

    Leviticus 19:11

    • 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.”

    Deuteronomy 33:29

    • 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.

    Joshua 7:11

    • 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.”

    Joshua 24:27

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 22:45

    • 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,

    1 Kings 13:18

    • 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.’

    Job 8:18

    • וְכִ֥חֶשׁvekhicheshHc/Vpq3mstagged: and it will deny
  • this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

    Job 31:28

    • 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.

    Psalms 18:44

    • 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.

    Psalms 66:3

    • 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.

    Psalms 81:15

    • 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.

    Psalms 109:24

    • 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.

    Proverbs 30:9

    • 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.

    Isaiah 59:13

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 5:12

    • 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.

    Hosea 4:2

    • 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.

    Hosea 9:2

    • 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,

    Habakkuk 3:17

    • 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.

    Zechariah 13:4

    • כַּחֵֽשׁ׃kacheshverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to deceive

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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