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title: כָּבַס — tread · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּבַס (3526), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 51 times: tread. BDB 1906: vb. tread wash. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּבַס

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«כָּבַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tread** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 51 times · **Key:** 3526 · **BDB:** כָּבַס

### Glosses

he.will.wash (30); you.will.wash (4); of.\[the\].washer (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tread [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3526/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. tread wash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3526/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (tread), wash (NH id.; Ph. כבס as pt.; Assyrian kabâsu, tread, (down), subjugate, kilšu, step, path, DlHWB)— Pt. only מְסִלַּת שְׂדֵה כוֹבֵס highway of fuller’s (= treader’s, washer’s) field Is 7:3; 36:2 = 2 K 18:17. Pf. וְכִּבֶּס consec. Lv 13:6 + 11 times; כִּבֵּס Gn 49:11 2 S 19:25, etc.; Impf. יְכַבֵּס Lv 11:25 + 16 times; 2 ms. sf. תְּכַבְּסֵנִי ψ 51:9, etc.; Imv. sf. כַּבְּסֵנִי 51:4; fs. כַּבְּסִי Je 4:14; Pt. pl. מְכַבְּסִים Mal 3:2;— wash garments (i.e. by treading) Ex 19:10, 14 (E), 2 S 19:25; fig. of Judah Gn 49:11; elsewhere chiefly P: Lv 6:20; 11:25, 28; 13:6, 34; 15:11; Nu 8:9 +; ‖ רָחץ (which = wash person) Lv 14:8, 9; 15:5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 + (כ׳ in Lv 27 times, ‖ ר׳ 15 times; in Nu 8 times, ‖ ר׳ 3 times); Pt. = fuller (cf. Qal), only בֹּרִית מְכ׳ Mal 3:2. wash person, only poet. and fig. אִם תְּכַבְּסִי בַּנֶּתֶר Je 2:22; כַּבְּסִי מֵרָעָה לִבֵּךְ 4:14; c. sf. ψ 51:4 (‖ טהר; + מֵעָוֹן); v 9 (‖ חִטֵּא). Pf. וְכֻבַּס consec. Lv 13:58; 15:17 be washed, of garment. (Ges§ 54, 3) Inf. אַחֲרֵי הֻכַּבֵּס אֶת־הַנֶּגַע Lv 13:55 after the plague is washed out, so v 56.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּבַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3526/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 51:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.4/)

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הֶ֭רֶב כַּבְּסֵ֣נִי מֵעֲוֺנִ֑י וּֽמֵחַטָּאתִ֥י טַהֲרֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* increase wash me from iniquity my and from sin my cleanse me

*JPS 1917:* Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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[Psalms 51:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.51.9/)

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תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְאֵז֣וֹב וְאֶטְהָ֑ר תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃

*Word for word:* you will.cleanse.me.from.sin with hyssop so that.I.may.be.pure you will.wash.me and more than.snow I.will.become.white

*JPS 1917:* Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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