כְּמוֹשׁ
Chemosh
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3645 appears — 8 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
1 Kings 2 verses
- 1 Kings 11:7 לִ/כְמוֹשׁ֙ prep + n Proper Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Kings 11:33 לִ/כְמוֹשׁ֙ prep + n Proper because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, as did David his father.
2 Kings 1 verse
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 48:7 כמיש כְמוֹשׁ֙ n Proper n Proper For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
- Jeremiah 48:13 מִ/כְּמ֑וֹשׁ prep + n Proper Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
- Jeremiah 48:46 כְּמ֑וֹשׁ n Proper Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
כמוש (Kᵉmôwsh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Chemosh.” It first appears in Numbers 21:29. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. Jeremiah dominates its distribution — 3 of 8 verses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3645 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 88%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Chemosh 8×
- American Standard Version: Chemosh 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Chemosh 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Chemosh 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3645 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3645 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3645 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3645 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Chemosh = "subduer"
- the national deity of the Moabites and a god of the Ammonites
Word origin
n.pr.div. Chemosh (כמש MI3, 5, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 32, 33 also עשתר כמש l 17 and n.pr.m. כמשמלך l 1; Assyrian Kammusunadbi, a king of Moab Schr.COT i, 281; = KAT2, 288; cf. further BaeRel. 13 f. 238, 256 NöZMG 1888, 471; 𝔊 Χαμώς);—god of the Moabites to whom Solomon erected a high place 1 K 11:7, 33; 2 K 23:13; Je 48:7 (Kt כמישׁ), v 13. Moab is עַם־כ׳ Nu 21:29 (ode) people of Chemosh, and Moabites his sons and daughters, cf. Je 48:46. He is said to be also the God of the Ammonites Ju 11:25 (probably an error BaeRel. 15 GFM).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to subdue
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H3645 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּמ֑וֹשׁ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 48:46 | 2 |
| לִ/כְמוֹשׁ֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 11:7 | 2 |
| וְ/לִ/כְמוֹשׁ֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 23:13 | 1 |
| כְמוֹשׁ֙ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 48:7 | 1 |
| כְּמ֥וֹשׁ | Noun, Proper | Judges 11:24 | 1 |
| כמיש | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 48:7 | 1 |
| מִ/כְּמ֑וֹשׁ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 48:13 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Chemosh). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num. 21:29; Jer. 48:7, 13, 46). The worship of this god, "the abomination of Moab," was introduced at Jerusalem by Solomon (1 Kings 11:7), but was abolished by Josiah (2 Kings 23:13). On the "Moabite Stone" (q.v.), Mesha (2 Kings 3:5) ascribes his victories over the king of Israel to this god, "And Chemosh drove him before my sight."
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(subduer), the national deity of the Moabites. (Numbers 21:29; Jeremiah 48:7,13,46) In (Judges 11:24) he also appears as the god of the Ammonites. Solomon introduced, and Josiah abolished, the worship of Chemosh at Jerusalem. (1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13) Also identified with Baal-peor, Baalzebub, Mars and Saturn.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
handling; stroking; taking away
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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