כָּחַד

Genesis 47:18 נְכַחֵ֣ד we will hide

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

Exodus 9:15 וַתִּכָּחֵ֖ד and you were destroyed

For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.

Exodus 23:23 וְהִכְחַדְתִּֽיו׃ and I will annihilate it

For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

Joshua 7:19 תְּכַחֵ֖ד you hide [it]

So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

Here: "Hold back, keep concealed." There is irony here: Achan had already hidden the loot in the ground under his tent (v. 21, a different verb). Now he is told to stop hiding.

1 Samuel 3:17 תְכַחֵ֖ד תְּכַחֵ֤ד you hide [it], you will hide

“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”

Here: Here it means to keep back information, to withhold. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision (v. 15), and Eli names that fear exactly.

1 Samuel 3:18 כִחֵ֖ד he hid [them]

So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”

Here: Eli's own verb from v. 17 ("do not hide it from me"). Repeating it shows that Samuel obeyed exactly. This is the stock verb for withholding information someone is entitled to (Josh 7:19; Jer 38:14).

2 Samuel 14:18 תְכַחֲדִ֤י you hide

Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.

Here: “Hide, hold back” (addressed to a woman). This is the stock verb of an interrogation in which a superior demands full disclosure. It is the same verb Joshua used to Achan and Eli used to Samuel. David is letting her know that he suspects something lies behind her story.

2 Samuel 18:13 יִכָּחֵ֣ד it is hidden

If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”

1 Kings 13:34 וּלְהַכְחִיד֙ and to annihilate [it]

And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.

2 Chronicles 32:21 וַיַּכְחֵ֞ד and he annihilated

and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

Here: In this causative form the verb means 'make vanish, efface, annihilate'. Those it hits are removed from existence, not merely beaten.

Job 4:7 נִכְחָֽדוּ׃ were they destroyed

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Here: The root means 'to hide.' In this passive form it means 'be made to disappear,' 'be wiped out of sight' (compare Exodus 9:15, 'you would have been effaced from the earth'). The picture is total disappearance: no line of descendants and no memory left behind.

Job 6:10 כִ֝חַ֗דְתִּי I have hidden

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Here: 'I have (not) hidden' or 'kept back'. In this form the verb means to conceal or suppress something, and so in effect to disown it. Job claims he has not buried or set aside what God said.

Job 15:18 כִֽ֝חֲד֗וּ they have hidden

what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

Here: 'They have not concealed'. In this verb form it regularly means holding back information someone ought to pass on (Josh 7:19; 1 Sam 3:17–18). The sages kept back nothing of what came down to them.

Job 15:28 נִכְחָד֗וֹת destroyed

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

Job 20:12 יַ֝כְחִידֶ֗נָּה he hides it

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

Job 22:20 נִכְחַ֣ד he has been destroyed

‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

Job 27:11 אֲכַחֵֽד׃ I will hide

I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.

Here: "I will conceal." The intensive form of the verb means to keep back or suppress what one knows. Job promises not to hold back the truth about God's ways, though it is uncomfortable. The friends, in his view, have been doing exactly that by defending God with falsehood (13:7–8).

Psalm 40:10 כִחַ֥דְתִּי I have hidden

I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

Here: 'Hide, keep back.' In some forms the verb can mean 'wipe out', so concealing is close to erasing. Keeping silent would make God's deeds disappear from the community's memory.

Psalm 69:5 נִכְחָֽדוּ׃ they are hidden

You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

Psalm 78:4 נְכַחֵ֨ד׀ we will hide

We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.

Here: "We will hide." This is the intensive (Piel) form, used for withholding something you know and ought to tell, like a witness keeping back testimony. The object ("them") is left unstated. It points back to the things "we have heard and known" in verse 3.

Psalm 83:4 וְנַכְחִידֵ֣ם and let us annihilate them

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Here: "And let us make them disappear". The causative form of a root meaning "hide" or "be hidden". It pictures making a people vanish so completely that nothing of them is left to see. The ending "-ēm" means "them", pointing back to God's people in verse 3.

Psalm 139:15 נִכְחַ֥ד it was hidden

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Here: 'Was hidden.' The same form appears in Hosea 5:3 ('Israel is not hidden from me') and Psalm 69:5, where it means escaping God's sight. Nothing of the speaker got past God's notice.

Isaiah 3:9 כִחֵ֑דוּ they have hidden [it]

The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Here: 'They have not concealed it.' This restates the previous clause from the negative side. Even hiding a sin admits that it is shameful, and they no longer do even that.

Jeremiah 38:14 תְּכַחֵ֥ד you hide

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

Jeremiah 38:25 תְּכַחֵ֥ד you hide [it]

If the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide it from us, or we will kill you,’

Jeremiah 50:2 תְּכַחֵ֑דוּ you hide [it]

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’

Here: 'Don't hide it' or 'don't hold any of it back'. The news must not be softened or kept quiet for fear of Babylon. In the past, speaking against Babylon was dangerous.

Hosea 5:3 נִכְחַ֣ד it is hidden

I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.

Zechariah 11:8 וָאַכְחִ֛ד and I annihilated

And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

Here: This form of the verb means to make something disappear: wipe out, blot out, destroy. The same root comes back twice in v.9 and once in v.16, so the word ties the leaders' removal to the flock's own fate. It means much more than "dismissed".

Zechariah 11:9 וְהַנִּכְחֶ֙דֶת֙ תִּכָּחֵ֔ד and the [one which] is being destroyed, let it be destroyed

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”

Zechariah 11:16 הַנִּכְחָד֤וֹת those [which] are being destroyed

For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

Here: 'The ones being cut off/perishing', meaning sheep that are dying or have gone missing. It repeats the exact word of v. 9 ('what is to be cut off, let it be cut off'), so the new shepherd's neglect carries on the doom already announced.