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# כָּסַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3699

**compute** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

compute [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3699/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּסַס: vb. compute [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3699/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. compute (perhaps orig. divide up, make small, fine; NH chew; Aramaic ܟܣܣ break small (rare), usually (Aph. etc.) correct, convict; Arabic كسّ pulverize; Assyrian kasâsu, perhaps cut in two, or up, whence kissatu, fodder)—only Impf. 2 mpl. אִישׁ לְפִי אָכְלוֹ תָּכֹסּוּ עַל־הַשֶּׂה Ex 12:4 (P) each one according to his eating shall ye compute for the lamb.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you will estimate (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 12:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.4/#tree)

וְאִם־יִמְעַ֣ט הַבַּיִת֮ מִהְיֹ֣ת מִשֶּׂה֒ וְלָקַ֣ח ה֗וּא וּשְׁכֵנ֛וֹ הַקָּרֹ֥ב אֶל־בֵּית֖וֹ בְּמִכְסַ֣ת נְפָשֹׁ֑ת אִ֚ישׁ לְפִ֣י אָכְל֔וֹ תָּכֹ֖סּוּ עַל־הַשֶּֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* and if it.will.be.\[too\].small the household for being for a.lamb and he.will.take he and neighbor his (the) near to house his by.\[the\] number of.people each.one to the.mouth his.food his you.will.estimate on the lamb

*JPS 1917:* and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbour next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3699.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3699/): 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).