kachad · hide; destroy

What it means

kachad (כָּחַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hide; destroy”.

Hide, conceal. In another form, cause to disappear, destroy.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To hide something, keep silent about it.
2. To erase, destroy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hide ×11
• hidden ×6
• wiped out ×5
• I made disappear ×1
• I will wipe them out ×1
• as to wipe it out ×1
• conceal it ×1
• concealed ×1
• he hides it ×1
• let it disappear ×1
• others ×3

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×7
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×4

• Genesis 47:18

  That year ended, and they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that the silver is spent and the herds of animals belong to my lord; nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our land.

• Exodus 9:15

  For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been wiped out from the earth.

• Exodus 23:23

  For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I will wipe them out.

• Joshua 7:19

  Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, and give him acknowledgment; and please tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

• 1 Samuel 3:17

  And he said, “What is the word that he spoke to you? Do not hide it from me, please. So may Elohim do to you and more also, if you hide from me a word of all the word that he spoke to you.”

• 1 Samuel 3:18

  So Samuel told him all the words and did not hide anything from him. And he said, “He is YHWH; let him do what is good in his eyes.”

• 2 Samuel 14:18

  The king answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you.” The woman said, “Please let my lord the king speak.”

• 2 Samuel 18:13

  Or if I had dealt falsely against my life —and nothing is hidden from the king— you would have stood aloof.”

• 1 Kings 13:34

  And this thing became the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to wipe it out and to destroy it from off the face of the ground.

• 2 Chronicles 32:21

  YHWH sent an angel, who wiped out every mighty man of valor and leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria; and he returned with shame of face to his land. He went into the house of his god, and some of those who came out of his own body made him fall there by the sword.

• Job 4:7

  Remember, please: who, being innocent, perished? And where were the upright wiped out?

• Job 6:10

  It would still be my comfort, and I would leap in pain that does not have pity, for I have not concealed the sayings of the Holy One.

• Job 15:18

  what wise men tell, and have not hidden, received from their fathers;

• Job 15:28

  and he dwelt in cities wiped out, in houses that no one lives in, that were destined to become heaps of stones.

• Job 20:12

  Though evil is sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue,

• Job 22:20

  ‘Surely our adversaries have been wiped out, and what was left of them fire has consumed.’

• Job 27:11

  I will teach you about the hand of El; what is with Shaddai I will not hide.

• Psalms 40:10

  Your righteousness I have not covered within my heart; your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken; I have not hidden your loyal love and your truth from the great assembly.

• Psalms 69:5

  Elohim, you know my folly, and my guilt is not hidden from you.

• Psalms 78:4

  We will not hide them from their children; to the generation to come we will recount the praises of YHWH, and his strength and his wonders that he has done.

• Psalms 83:4

  They say, “Come, and let us eliminate them from being a nation, and let not the name of Israel be remembered any more.”

• Psalms 139:15

  My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, embroidered in the depths of the earth.

• Isaiah 3:9

  The look of their faces testifies against them, and their sin, like Sodom, they proclaim; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul, for they have brought evil on themselves!

• Jeremiah 38:14

  Then King Zedekiah sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself at the third entrance that was in the house of YHWH; and the king said to Jeremiah, “I am asking you something; do not hide anything from me.”

• Jeremiah 38:25

  And if the princes hear that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us, please, what you said to the king; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; and what did the king say to you?’

• Jeremiah 50:2

  Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner; proclaim, do not conceal it; say, “Babylon is captured, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her idols are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.”

• Hosea 5:3

  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now you have prostituted yourself, Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

• Zechariah 11:8

  And I made disappear the three shepherds in one month; and my soul grew impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.

• Zechariah 11:9

  And I said, “I will not shepherd you; what is dying, let it die; and what is disappearing, let it disappear; and those that are left, let them devour each the flesh of her companion.”

• Zechariah 11:16

  For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land; those that are disappearing he will not attend to, the straying he will not seek, and the broken he will not heal, the one that stands he will not sustain; but the flesh of the fat he will eat, and their hooves he will tear off.

And 2 more times.