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# כַּחַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3585

**lying** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3585/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּ֫חַשׁ: n.m. lying leanness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3585/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 16:8 1. lying 2. leanness;—abs. כ׳ Ho 12:1 + 2 times; כָּ֑חַשׁ Ho 10:13; sf. כַּחֲשִׁי Jb 16:8; pl. sf. כַּחֲשֵׁיהֶם Ho 7:3;— lying, אֲכַלְתֶּם פְּרִי כ׳ Ho 10:13 ye have eaten the fruit of lying; 7:3 (‖ רָעָה), 12:1; of Nineveh, כ׳ פֶּרֶק מְלֵאָה Na 3:1 of lying (and) robbery it is full; ψ 59:13 (‖ אָלָה). of Job’s affliction Jb 16:8 my leanness hath risen up against me (cf. ψ 109:24; 𝔗 J Gn 41:27, Ec 12:5; Talm. כחשׁא; \> my lying, i.e. my affliction regarded as a lying witness, Di Buhl al.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lying (3); leanness (1); lies (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.7.3/#tree)

בְּרָעָתָ֖ם יְשַׂמְּחוּ־מֶ֑לֶךְ וּבְכַחֲשֵׁיהֶ֖ם שָׂרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* by evil their they.make.glad \[the\].king and by lies their princes

*JPS 1917:* They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

[Nahum 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.1/#tree)

ה֖וֹי עִ֣יר דָּמִ֑ים כֻּלָּ֗הּ כַּ֤חַשׁ פֶּ֙רֶק֙ מְלֵאָ֔ה לֹ֥א יָמִ֖ישׁ טָֽרֶף׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[the\].city of.blood(s) of.it all lying plunder \[is\].full not it.will.depart prey

*JPS 1917:* Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3585.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3585/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).