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title: כָּסַס — compute · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּסַס (3699), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: compute. BDB 1906: vb. compute. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּסַס

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«כָּסַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **compute** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3699 · **BDB:** כָּסַס

### Glosses

you.will.estimate (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּסַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3699/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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