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# כֶּחָשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3586

**deceptive** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

deceptive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3586/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּחָשׁ: adj. deceptive, false [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3586/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. deceptive, false (on format. v. BaNB 50 Ges§ 84b)—בָּנִים כֶּחָשִׁים Is 30:9 (‖ עַם מְרִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 30:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.9/#tree)

כִּ֣י עַ֤ם מְרִי֙ ה֔וּא בָּנִ֖ים כֶּחָשִׁ֑ים בָּנִ֕ים לֹֽא־אָב֥וּ שְׁמ֖וֹעַ תּוֹרַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].a.people of.rebellion it children lying children \[who\].not they.have.been.willing to.hear the.law of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3586.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3586/): 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).