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Strong's #3645 - כְּמוֹשׁ
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Chemosh = “subduer”
1) the national deity of the Moabites and a god of the Ammonites
1a) also identified with ‘Baal-peor’, ‘Baal-zebub’, ‘Mars’ and ‘Saturn’
1b) worship of this god was introduced into Jerusalem by Solomon and abolished by king Josiah of Judah
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כמז (√ of following; meaning dubious; Arabic is bunch, heap).
כמישׁ Jeremiah 48:7 Kt, see כְּמוֺשׁ. above
כמן (√ of following (si vera l); perhaps be hidden; compare Aramaic כְּמַן, , lie in ambush; Arabic id. is denominative from loan-word according to Frä243).
כְּמוֹשׁ m. [Chemosh], pr.n. of a national god of the Moabites and Ammonites, Judges 11:24, worshipped also at Jerusalem in the reign of Solomon [after his wives had turned aside his heart]. 1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13; Jeremiah 48:7 perhaps subduer, conqueror, tamer, from the root כָּמַשׁ, which see; hence עַם כְּמוֹשׁ people of Chemosh, i.e. the Moabites, Numbers 21:29. LXX. Χαμώς. Vulg. Chamos.