כַּחַשׁ
kachash · leanness, lying
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3585 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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kachash (כַּחַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “leanness, lying”.
Leanness, a wasted body; elsewhere, lying or deceit.
How to say it
ka·chash
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
- A false word said with deceit to seem what one is not.
- A wasted body, thin.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- lies ×3
- lying ×2
- leanness ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 16:8
And you have seized me: it has become a witness; and my leanness rises up against me, it testifies to my face.
- Psalms 59:12
The sin of their mouth is the word of their lips; let them be caught in their pride, and for the imprecation and the lying that they recount.
- Hosea 7:3
With their evil they make the king glad, and with their lies the princes.
- Hosea 10:13
You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lying; for you have trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
- Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still roams with El, and with the Holy One he is faithful.
- Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood! All of it is full of lies and plunder; the prey does not depart.