ka.chad denotes withholding something from disclosure and, in other clauses, removing persons or things so that they are no longer present.

The most evident use concerns withholding words, facts, deeds, or public reports from another person; it also describes concealment from sight or knowledge and, in Hiphil and some passive contexts, the removal or destruction of persons, groups, and inhabited places.

1. Withhold information or a matter from disclosure · dominant

   Piel forms occur in requests or statements about not keeping spoken matters back: Samuel tells Eli every word in 1 Samuel 3:18, and Joshua requires Achan to tell what he has done in Joshua 7:19. The same use includes making known a report publicly in Jeremiah 50:2 and recounting the LORD's deeds to later generations in Psalm 78:4.

   1 Samuel 3:171 Samuel 3:18Joshua 7:19Jeremiah 38:14Jeremiah 50:2Psalm 78:4
2. Remove or destroy · common

   Hiphil forms place the action in clauses of wiping out or destroying: Exodus 23:23 names several peoples whom the speaker will wipe out, while 2 Chronicles 32:21 describes the destruction of the Assyrian king's warriors. In Zechariah 11:8 the first-person sequential imperfect occurs in the removal of three shepherds, and 1 Kings 13:34 places the infinitive construct beside blotting out and destroying Jeroboam's house.

   Exodus 23:231 Kings 13:342 Chronicles 32:21Zechariah 11:8Zechariah 11:9
3. Be hidden, unobserved, or lost from view · occasional

   Niphal forms describe what is not concealed from a knower or observer: Israel is not hidden in Hosea 5:3, the king would have nothing hidden from him in 2 Samuel 18:13, and the psalmist's frame was not hidden in Psalm 139:15. Other passive contexts associate the form with perishing or desolate places, as the APB renders ruined houses in Job 15:28 and those who are perishing in Zechariah 11:16.

   2 Samuel 18:13Hosea 5:3Psalm 139:15Job 15:28Zechariah 11:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses "hide," "conceal," and "hidden" where clauses concern disclosure or visibility, while removal contexts are rendered with expressions such as "wipe him out," "blot it out," "destroyed," and "cut off." These renderings present the verse-level sense rather than fixed English equivalents for each form.