King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3585
Transliteration: kachash
Phonetic Spelling: (kakh'-ash)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: lying, leanness
Meaning: a failure of flesh, emaciation, hypocrisy
Word Summary
kachash: lying, leanness
Original Word: כַּחַשׁTransliteration: kachash
Phonetic Spelling: (kakh'-ash)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: lying, leanness
Meaning: a failure of flesh, emaciation, hypocrisy
Strong's Concordance
leanness, lies, lying From kachash; literally, a failure of flesh, i.e. Emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy -- leanness, lies, lying.
see HEBREW kachash
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3585. kachash
כַּ֫חַשׁ noun masculineJob 16:8
1 lying.
2 leanness; — absolute ׳כ Hosea 12:1-2t.; כָּ֑חַשׁ 10:13; suffix כַּחֲשִׁי Job 16:8; plural suffix כַּחֲשֵׁיהֶם Hosea 7:3; —
1 lying, כ ׳מְּרִי אֲכַלְתֶּם Hosea 10:13 ye have eaten the fruit of lying; 7:3 ("" רָעָה), 12:1; of Nineveh, ׳כ מְלֵאָה מֶּרֶק Nahum 3:1 of lying (and) robbery it is full; Psalm 59:13 ("" אָלָה).
2 of Job's affliction Job 16:8 my leanness hath risen up against me (compare Psalm 109:24; ᵑ7 J Genesis 41:27; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Talmud כחשׁא; > my lying, i.e. my affliction regarded as a lying witness, Di Buhl and others)