כַּחַשׁ (kaḥaš) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning lying. It appears
6 times
in 4 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H3585).
Also rendered
lie
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 975a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 975a)lying, leanness; failure of flesh, emaciation, hypocrisy; lies
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
כַּ֫חַשׁnoun, masculine: lying, leanness
Strong's H3585כַּחַשׁ: literally a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy KJV:leanness, lies, lying.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 975: כָּחַשׁkāḥaš — be disappointing, deceive, fail, grow lean; act deceptively, cringe, come cringing, disappoint; be untrue, lie, feign, disown; deny, dissemble, deal falsely, be found liars, lying, submit selves