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Strong's #3532 - כֶּבֶשׂ
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- lamb, sheep, young ram
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2273) bxk (כסב KSB) AC: ? CO: Sheep AB: ?
Nm ) bxk (כסב KSB) - Sheep: [df: Vbk bVk] KJV (120): lamb, sheep - Strongs: H3532 (כֶּבֶשׂ), H3775 (כֶּשֶׂב)
Nf1 ) ebxk (כסבה KSBH) - Lamb: A female lamb. [df: hVbk] KJV (8): lamb - Strongs: H3535 (כַּבְשָׂה)
ef1 ) ebxik (כיסבה KYSBH) - Lamb: A female lamb. [df: hbVk] KJV (1): lamb - Strongs: H3776 (כִּשְׂבָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 lamb, for sacrifice: Isaiah 1:11; of daily offering Exodus 29:38,39 (twice in verse); Exodus 29:40,41; Numbers 28:3,4 (twice in verse) + 12t. Numbers 28; sin-offering Leviticus 4:32; purification Leviticus 12:6; Leviticus 14:10 5t. Leviticus 14; dedication of altar Numbers 7:15 25t. Numbers 7; offerings in 7th month Numbers 29:2 22t. Numbers 29, etc. (87t. Exodus Leviticus Numbers all P); in Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 46:4 6t. Ezekiel 46; 1 Chronicles 29:21; 2 Chronicles 29:21,22,32; 35:7; Ezra 8:35, compare simile Jeremiah 11:19.
2 lambs, as grazing; symbol of devastation Isaiah 5:17 (compare Gie Beitr. 1890), simile of Israel Hosea 4:16; in predict. ׳וְגָר זְאֵב עִםכֿ Isaiah 11:6.
3 lambs, as furnishing wool for clothing: Job 31:20 ׳גֵּז כ, Proverbs 27:26 לִלְבוּשֶׁ֑ךָ׳כ.
כֶּבֶשׂ [pl. כְּבָשִׂים] m. a lamb (pr. progeny of sheep), specially from the first to the third year (see Bochart, Hieroz. i. p. 421, seq.), whence there is often added בֶּן־שְׁנָתוֹ the son of its year, one year old. Numbers 7:15, 21, 33, 39, 45, 51, 57, 63, 69, 75, and in plur. בְּנֵי שָׁנָה Numbers 7:17, 23, 29, 35, 41. Sometimes it is used in a wider sense, and denotes sheep generally, Genesis 21:27. [This is quite a mistake, this word does not occur there.] (كَبْشُ a lamb of a year old, see the Arabian grammarians in Bochart, loc. cit.). The feminine of this word is