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# כְּמוֹשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3645

**Chemosh** — used 8 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

Chemosh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3645/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּמוֹשׁ: n.pr.div. Chemosh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3645/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.div. Chemosh (כמש MI3, 5, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 32, 33 also עשתר כמש l 17 and n.pr.m. כמשמלך l 1; Assyrian Kammusunadbi, a king of Moab Schr.COT i, 281; = KAT2, 288; cf. further BaeRel. 13 f. 238, 256 NöZMG 1888, 471; 𝔊 Χαμώς);—god of the Moabites to whom Solomon erected a high place 1 K 11:7, 33; 2 K 23:13; Je 48:7 (Kt כמישׁ), v 13. Moab is עַם־כ׳ Nu 21:29 (ode) people of Chemosh, and Moabites his sons and daughters, cf. Je 48:46. He is said to be also the God of the Ammonites Ju 11:25 (probably an error BaeRel. 15 GFM).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Chemosh (6); of Chemosh (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 48:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.13/#tree)

וּבֹ֥שׁ מוֹאָ֖ב מִכְּמ֑וֹשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁר־בֹּ֙שׁוּ֙ בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִבֵּ֥ית אֵ֖ל בֵּ֥ית אֵ֖ל מִבְטֶחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.ashamed Moab from Chemosh just as they.were.ashamed the.house of.Israel from Bethel Bethel of.confidence their.object

*JPS 1917:* And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.

[Jeremiah 48:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.46/#tree)

אוֹי־לְךָ֣ מוֹאָ֔ב אָבַ֖ד עַם־כְּמ֑וֹשׁ כִּֽי־לֻקְּח֤וּ בָנֶ֙יךָ֙ בַּשֶּׁ֔בִי וּבְנֹתֶ֖יךָ בַּשִּׁבְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* woe! to you O.Moab it.will.perish the.people of.Chemosh (dm) they.will.be.taken sons your in (the) captivity and daughters your in (the) captivity

*JPS 1917:* Woe unto thee, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3645.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3645/): 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).