kachash · deny, deceive

What it means

kachash (כָּחַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deny, deceive”.

Deny, lie, deceive; fail, disappoint.

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 say what is not so, or deny what is true.
2. To pretend to obey out of fear.
3. To yield no fruit, like a harvest that fails.
4. To become lean and without strength.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• feign submission ×4
• lie ×3
• lied ×3
• lying ×2
• I would have denied ×1
• They have denied ×1
• denied it ×1
• deny you ×1
• denying ×1
• has grown lean ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×2
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 18:15

  But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

• Leviticus 6:2

  “When a person sins and commits unfaithfulness against YHWH by lying to his neighbor about a deposit or a pledge or a robbery, or has exploited his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:3

  or has found something lost and lied about it and sworn falsely about any one of all the things that a man may do so as to sin by them,

• Leviticus 19:11

  You shall not steal, and you shall not lie, and you shall not deceive one another.

• Deuteronomy 33:29

  Happy are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by YHWH, the shield of your help and who is the sword of your majesty? Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their high places.”

• Joshua 7:11

  Israel has sinned; they have also transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have also taken from the things devoted to destruction; they have also stolen; they have also lied; and they have also put them among their own utensils.

• Joshua 24:27

  And Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the sayings of YHWH that he spoke with us; and it shall be a witness against you, lest you lie to your Elohim.”

• 2 Samuel 22:45

  Foreigners feign submission to me; as soon as they hear with the ear, they listen to me.

• 1 Kings 13:18

  He said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

• Job 8:18

  If one swallows him up from his place, it denies him: ‘I have not seen you.’

• Job 31:28

  this too would be an iniquity for the judges, for I would have denied El above.

• Psalms 18:44

  As soon as the ear hears, they listen to me; foreigners feign submission to me.

• Psalms 66:3

  Say to Elohim, “How awesome are your works! Because of the abundance of your strength your enemies feign submission to you.

• Psalms 81:15

  Those who hate YHWH would feign submission to him, and their time would be forever.

• Psalms 109:24

  My knees give way from fasting, and my flesh has grown lean, without fat.

• Proverbs 30:9

  lest I be satisfied and deny you and say, “Who is YHWH?” and lest I become poor and steal and profane the name of my Elohim.

• Isaiah 59:13

  transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and rebellion, conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood.

• Jeremiah 5:12

  They have denied YHWH and said, ‘Not he! And no evil will come upon us, and sword and famine we will not see.

• Hosea 4:2

  Cursing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.

• Hosea 9:2

  Threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail her.

• Habakkuk 3:17

  Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, the work of the olive lies, and the fields do not produce food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

• Zechariah 13:4

  And it will happen on that day that the prophets will be ashamed, each of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not put on a mantle of hair in order to lie.