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To paint

כָּחַלStrong’s H3583

kachal (ka-chal)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Kachal is the Hebrew word usually translated “painted”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,”
Ezekiel 23:40 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to paint (eyes), adorn with paint
How it's translated
  • you painted 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    כָּחַל kachal · to paint

    (Qal) to paint (eyes), adorn with paint

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “paint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    PA'INT, verb transitive

    [Latin pingo, pictus.]

    1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.
    2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house.
    3. To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form.
    4. To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe.
    All definitions and other forms of “paint”
    1. To color; to diversify with colors.
    2. To lay on artificial color for ornament.“Jezebel painted her face and tired her head” 2 Kings 9:30

    PAINT, verb intransitive

    To lay colors on the face. It is said the ladies in France paint

    1. To practice painting.

    PAINT, noun

    A coloring substance; a substance used in painting; either simple or compound; as a white paint or red paint

    1. Color laid on canvas or other material; color representing any thing.
    2. Color laid on the face; rouge.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.