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title: כֶּבֶשׂ — lamb · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֶּבֶשׂ (3532), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 107 times: lamb. BDB 1906: n.m. lamb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֶּבֶשׂ

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«כֶּבֶשׂ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lamb** — 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:** 107 times · **Key:** 3532 · **BDB:** כֶּ֫בֶשׂ

### Glosses

lambs (57); lamb (20); a.lamb (16)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֶּבֶשׂ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3532/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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;

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