Strong's #3645: Kmowsh (pronounced kem-oshe')

or (Jer. 48:7) Kmiysh {kem-eesh'}; from an unused root meaning to subdue; the powerful; Kemosh, the god of the Moabites:--Chemosh.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁ / ּׁ

kemôsh / kemı̂ysh

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

Part of Speech: noun proper deity

Relation: from an unused root meaning to subdue

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Numbers 21:29: "to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters,"
Judges 11:24: "thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever"
1 Samuel 4:9: "and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been"
1 Kings 11:7: "did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that"
1 Kings 11:33: "the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god"
2 Kings 23:13: "of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites,"
Jeremiah 48:7: "thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes"
Jeremiah 48:13: "And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, of Chemosh, as of Israel was ashamed"
Jeremiah 48:46: "Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh for thy sons are taken"