Lie
כַּ֫חַשׁStrong’s H3585kachash (ka-chash)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kachash is the Hebrew word usually translated “lying”, “leanness my” and “from lying”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.”
Meaning
- Lying, deception
- Leanness, failure
How it's translated
- lying 2
- leanness my 1
- and from lying 1
- and by lies their 1
- with lying 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hosea 3
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Nahum 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 59:12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- Hosea 7:3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
- Hosea 10:13Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
- Hosea 11:12Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
- Nahum 3:1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
Hebrew dictionary
כַּ֫חַשׁ kachash · lie
1) lying, deception 2) leanness, failure
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lie” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIE, noun
- A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth.
- A fiction; in a ludicrous sense.
- False doctrine. 1
- An idolatrous picture of God, or a false god. Romans 1:25
All definitions and other forms of “lie”
- That which deceives and disappoints confidence.
LIE, verb intransitive
- To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive, or with an immoral design.“Thou hast not lied to men, but to God” Acts 5:4
- To exhibit a false representation; to say or do that which deceives another, when he has a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
LIE, verb intransitive
preterit tense lay; participle passive lain, [lien, obsolete ] [The Gr. word usually signifies to speak, which is to utter or throw out sounds. Hence to lie down is to throw one's self down, and probably lie and lay are of one family, as are jacio and jacceo, in Latin.]
- To be in a horizontal position, or nearly so, and to rest on any thing lengthwise, and not on the end.
- To rest in an inclining posture; to lean; as, to lie on or against a column.
- To rest; to press on.
- To be reposited in the grave.“All the kings of the earth, even all of them, lie in glory” Isaiah 14:18
- To rest on a bed or couch; to be prostrate; as, to lie sick.“My little daughter lieth at the point of death” Mark 5:23
- To be situated.
- To be; to rest; to abide; to remain; often followed by some word denoting a particular condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie pining or grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of a creditor, or at the mercy of the waves.
- To consist.
- To be sustainable in law; to be capable of being maintained.
- To lie by, to be reposited, or remaining with.
- To rest; to intermit labor.
- To lie with, to lodge or sleep with; also, to have carnal knowledge of.
- To belong to.
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.