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# כֶּשֶׂב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3775

**lamb** — used 13 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/1499/3775/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫שֶׂב: lamb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3775/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lamb (transp. from preceding)—כ׳ abs. Lv 3:7 + 5 times; pl. כְּשָׂבִים Gn 30:32 + 6 times;—lamb, as property Gn 30:32, 33, 35, 40 (J); for sacrif. Lv 1:10; 3:7; 4:35; 22:19 Nu 18:17, cf. Lv 22:27; for food Lv 7:23, cf. 17:3 (all P); Dt 14:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: rams (6); a young ram (4); of a young ram (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.4/#tree)

זֹ֥את הַבְּהֵמָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֹּאכֵ֑לוּ שׁ֕וֹר שֵׂ֥ה כְשָׂבִ֖ים וְשֵׂ֥ה עִזִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the animal which you.will.eat an.ox an.animal of.young.rams and an.animal of.goats

*JPS 1917:* These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

[Leviticus 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.3.7/#tree)

אִם־כֶּ֥שֶׂב הֽוּא־מַקְרִ֖יב אֶת־קָרְבָּנ֑וֹ וְהִקְרִ֥יב אֹת֖וֹ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* if a.young.ram he \[is\].presenting (et) present his and he.will.present it before Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* If he bring a lamb for his offering, then shall he present it before the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3775.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3775/): 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).