כָּחַשׁ kâchash

Meaning

to be untrue, in word (to lie, feign, disown) or deed (to disappoint, fail, cringe)

In the King James Version: deceive, deny, dissemble, fail, deal falsely, be found liars, (be-) lie, lying, submit selves.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 18:15 But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
• Leviticus 6:2 “If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
• Leviticus 6:3 or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—
• Leviticus 19:11 You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
• Deuteronomy 33:29 Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
• Joshua 7:11 Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
• Joshua 24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”
• 2 Samuel 22:45 Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
• 1 Kings 13:18 Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
• Job 8:18 If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
• Job 31:28 this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.
• Psalms 18:44 When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
• Psalms 66:3 Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
• Psalms 81:15 Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
• Psalms 109:24 My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
• Proverbs 30:9 Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
• Isaiah 59:13 rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
• Jeremiah 5:12 They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
• Hosea 4:2 Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
• Hosea 9:2 The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
• Habakkuk 3:17 Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
• Zechariah 13:4 And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.