Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3585
כַּחַשׁ
kachashkakh'-ash
lie
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3585is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3585
literally a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy
The King James renders it: leanness, lies, lying.
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 "lie". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Hosea, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 16:8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
Job 16:8כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lying2
- and by lies their1
- and from lying1
- leanness my1
- with lying1
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- בְכַ֙חַשׁ֙1
- וּבְכַחֲשֵׁיהֶ֖ם1
- וּמִכַּ֣חַשׁ1
- כַּ֤חַשׁ1
- כָ֑חַשׁ1
- כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Job
one use
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
- כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗יkhachashinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: leanness my
Psalms
one use
By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- וּמִכַּ֣חַשׁumikachashconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from lying
Hosea
three uses
They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
- וּבְכַחֲשֵׁיהֶ֖םuvekhachasheihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and by lies their
You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
- כָ֑חַשׁkhachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: lying
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
- בְכַ֙חַשׁ֙vekhachashpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with lying
Nahum
one use
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
- כַּ֤חַשׁkachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: lying
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.