# H3585 כַּחַשׁ

כַּחַשׁ (kachash), Strong’s H3585: literally a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy KJV: leanness, lies, lying.. Occurs 6 times.

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*kachash* — literally a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy

KJV: leanness, lies, lying.

Derived from [כָּחַשׁ kâchash](https://besorah.bible/word/H3584) (to be untrue, in word)

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כַּ֫חַשׁ n.m. 1. lying. 2. leanness

## Where it occurs
- [Hosea 7:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/7?v=3) — They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
- [Hosea 10:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/10?v=13) — You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in…
- [Hosea 12:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/12?v=1) — Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is…
- [Nahum 3:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/3?v=1) — Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.
- [Psalms 59:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/59?v=13) — For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies…
- [Job 16:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/16?v=8) — You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.