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# כֶּבֶשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3532

**lamb** — used 107 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

lamb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3532/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫בֶשׂ: n.m. lamb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3532/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 29:38 lamb (√ dub.: NH id., battering-ram; Assyrian kabšu, lamb according to COT Gloss.; Arabic كَبْشٌ is ram, leader; Syriac ܟܶܒܫܳܐ lamb, with anom. ܫ, is very rare, and prob. loan-word; Nö in Frä109)—כ׳ abs. Ex 29:39 + 43 times; pl. כְּבָשִׂים v 38 + 61 times; sf. כְּבָשַׂי Jb 31:20;— lamb, for sacrif.: Is 1:11; of daily offering Ex 29:38, 39(×2), 40, 41 Nu 28:3, 4(×2) + 12 times Nu 28; sin-offering Lv 4:32; purification 12:6; 14:10 + 5 times Lv 14; dedication of altar Nu 7:15 + 25 times Nu 7; offerings in 7th month 29:2 + 22 times Nu 29, etc. (87 times Ex Lv Nu all P); in Ezekiel’s temple Ez 46:4 + 6 times Ez 46; 1 Ch 29:21 2 Ch 29:21, 22, 32; 35:7 Ezr 8:35, cf. sim. Je 11:19. lambs, as grazing; symb. of devastation Is 5:17 (cf. GieBeitr. 1890), sim. of Isr. Ho 4:16; in predict. וְגָר זְאֵב עִם־כ׳ Is 11:6. lambs, as furnishing wool for clothing: Jb 31:20 גֵּז כ׳, Pr 27:26 כ׳ לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: lambs (57); lamb (20); a lamb (16).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.26/#tree)

כְּבָשִׂ֥ים לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ וּמְחִ֥יר שָׂ֝דֶ֗ה עַתּוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* lambs \[are\].for clothing your and \[are.the\].price of.a.field goats

*JPS 1917:* The lambs will be for thy clothing, and the goats the price for a field.

[Numbers 28:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.29/#tree)

עִשָּׂרוֹן֙ עִשָּׂר֔וֹן לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ הָאֶחָ֑ד לְשִׁבְעַ֖ת הַכְּבָשִֽׂים׃

*Word for word:* a.tenth a.tenth for the lamb (the) one for the.seven the lambs

*JPS 1917:* a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3532.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3532/): 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).