STRONGS NUMBER H3585


Word Summary
kachash: lying, leanness
Original Word: כַּחַשׁ
Transliteration: 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

כַּ֫חַשׁnoun masculineJob 16:8

1 lying.

2 leanness; — absolute ׳כHosea 12:1-2t.; כָּ֑חַשׁ10:13; suffix כַּחֲשִׁיJob 16:8; plural suffix כַּחֲשֵׁיהֶםHosea 7:3; —

1 lying, כ ׳מְּרִי אֲכַלְתֶּםHosea 10:13 ye have eaten the fruit of lying; 7:3 ("" רָעָה‎), 12:1; of Nineveh, ׳כ מְלֵאָה מֶּרֶקNahum 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)