STRONGS NUMBER H3645


Word Summary
Kemosh or Kemish: a god of the Moabites
Original Word: כְּמוֹשׁ
Transliteration: Kemosh or Kemish
Phonetic Spelling: (kem-oshe')
Part of Speech: Proper Name
Short Definition: a god of the Moabites
Meaning: Chemosh -- a god of the Moabites
Strong's Concordance
Chemosh

Or (Jer. 48:7) Kmiysh {kem-eesh'}; from an unused root meaning to subdue; the powerful; Kemosh, the god of the Moabites -- Chemosh.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3645. Kemosh

or Kemish כְּמוֺשׁproper name, of a divinity Chemosh (כמש‎ MI3. 5. 9. 12. 13. 14. 18. 19. 32. 23 also כמש עשתרJeremiah 1:17 and proper name, masculine כמשמלך1:1; Assyrian Kammusunadbi, a king of Moab SchrCOT i, 281; = KAT2, 288; compare further BaeRel 13 f. 238, 256ZMG 1888, 471; ᵐ5Ξαμώς); — god of the Moabites to whom Solomon erected a high place 1 Kings 11:7, 33; 2 Kings 23:13; Jeremiah 48:7 (Kt כמישׁ‎), 48:13. Moab is ׳עַםכֿNumbers 21:29 (ode) people of Chemosh, and Moabites his sons and daughters, compare Jeremiah 48:46. He is said to be also the God of the Ammonites Judges 11:25 (probably an error BaeRel 15 GFM).

כמז‎ (√ of following; meaning dubious; Arabic is bunch, heap).

כמישׁJeremiah 48:7 Kt, see כְּמוֺשׁ‎. above

כמן‎ (√ of following (si vera l); perhaps be hidden; compare Aramaic כְּמַן‎, , lie in ambush; Arabic id. is denominative from loan-word according to Frä243).