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# כִּבְשָׂה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3535

**ewe-lamb** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ewe-lamb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3535/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּבְשָׂה: n.f. ewe-lamb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3535/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ewe-lamb; כִּ׳ 2 S 12:3, 6; כַּ׳ Lv 14:10 Nu 6:14; cstr. כִּבְשַׂת 2 S 12:4; pl. כְּבָשׂת Gn 21:29, 30; cstr. כִּבְשׂת v 28;—ewe-lambs (7) set in witness Gn 21:28, 29, 30 (E); used in sacrif. Lv 14:10 (purif.), Nu 6:14 (Nazirite; both P, and both ‖ כֶּבֶשׂ); for food, in Nathan’s parable 2 S 12:3, 4, 6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a ewe-lamb (3); ewe-lambs (3); ewe-lamb (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.28/#tree)

וַיַּצֵּ֣ב אַבְרָהָ֗ם אֶת־שֶׁ֛בַע כִּבְשֹׂ֥ת הַצֹּ֖אן לְבַדְּהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.set Abraham (et) seven ewe-lambs of the.flock them alone

*JPS 1917:* And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

[Genesis 21:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.29/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֑ם מָ֣ה הֵ֗נָּה שֶׁ֤בַע כְּבָשֹׂת֙ הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִצַּ֖בְתָּ לְבַדָּֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Abimelech to Abraham what? \[are\].they seven ewe-lambs (the) these which you.have.set them alone

*JPS 1917:* And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What mean these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3535.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3535/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).