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כָּחַד kâchad — to secrete, by act or word

pronounced kaw-khad' · Strong's H3582 · 32 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 3 stems: Pi'el, Niph'al, Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as conceal, cut down, desolate, hide.

a primitive root; to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy.

kâchad in each stem

Pi'el 15×

Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it

Jussive 6Perfect (qatal) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 4

נְכַחֵ֣ד Gen 47:18 Imperfect (yiqtol), 1st person common plural

When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: (KJV)

תְּכַחֵ֖ד Josh 7:19 Jussive, 2nd person masculine singular

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. (KJV)

תְכַחֵ֖ד 1Sam 3:17 Jussive, 2nd person masculine singular

And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee. (KJV)

Niph'al 11×

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (passive) 2Wayyiqtol 1Participle (active) 1

וַתִּכָּחֵ֖ד Exod 9:15 Wayyiqtol, 2nd person masculine singular

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. (KJV)

יִכָּחֵ֣ד 2Sam 18:13 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me. (KJV)

נִכְחָֽדוּ Job 4:7 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? (KJV)

Hiph'il

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1

וְהִכְחַדְתִּֽיו Exod 23:23 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 1st person common singular

For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. (KJV)

וּלְהַכְחִיד֙ 1Kgs 13:34 Infinitive construct

And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth. (KJV)

וַיַּכְחֵ֞ד 2Chr 32:21 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. (KJV)

What the stems mean

A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›

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