Kachad means “secrete” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3582 — xestes (“pot”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3582 כָּחַד (kachad) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. kachad (kaw-khad') v. 1. to secrete, by act or word 2. hence (intensively) to destroy It has 30 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include cut, conceal, will, destroy, and words. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
kachad (kaw-khad') v. 1. to secrete, by act or word 2. hence (intensively) to destroy [a primitive root] KJV: conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.
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to hide
Usage: 1) to hide, conceal, cut off, cut down, make desolate, kick 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be hidden 1a2) to be effaced, be destroyed, be cut off 1b) (Piel) to cover, hide 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to hide 1c2) to efface, annihilate
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kachad, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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30 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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:
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.
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.
First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3582.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
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.
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.
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.
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
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Kachad (Strong's H3582) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "secrete". kachad (kaw-khad') v. 1. to secrete, by act or word 2. hence (intensively) to destroy
This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's H3582 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3582 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cut, conceal, will, destroy, words, and desolate. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.