Word

כָּבַשׁ

kâbash · H3533 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences

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Meanings

to be subdued

Literally: to be trodden underfoot; hence: state in which land has come under someone's authority or control, usually after having been conquered with force

Examples
Numbers 32:22 and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be free of obligation toward the LORD and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours as property before the LORD.
Numbers 32:29 And Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, cross with you over the Jordan in the presence of the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as their property;
Joshua 18:1 Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.
to subdue, to subjugate, to enslave, to molest

Literally: to tread underfoot; hence: causative action by which humans use force to bring other humans and areas under their authority and control

Examples
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
2 Samuel 8:11 King David also consecrated these gifts to the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had consecrated from all the nations which he had subdued:
2 Chronicles 28:10 “Now you are proposing to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Are you not, however guilty yourselves of offenses against the LORD your God?
to tread sins underfoot, to wipe out sins

Literally: to tread (someone's) iniquities underfoot; hence: causative action by which deities remove the consequences of the sin of humans in a radical way

Examples
Micah 7:19 He will again take pity on us; He will trample on our wrongdoings. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

13 occurrences in 6 groups

אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 4
Not stated: you (more than one) 2
Not stated: they 2
Not stated: he, she or it 2
Not stated (infinitive) 2
אֲנַחְנוּwe 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

7 occurrences in 6 groups

בֵּןson 2
הֶםthem 2
בַּתdaughter 1
מַלְכָּהqueen 1
עָוֺןiniquity 1
הָher 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 6 groups

לto/for+ פָּנִיםface, presence, before 3
עִםwith+ נִיme 1
בin/on/with+ בַּיִתhouse, household 1
לto/for+ הָיָהto be, to become 1
לto/for+ עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
לto/for+ כֶםyou 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יֵשׁthere is, there are 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Control002003002007: The verb describes subduing or bringing something into subjection, exercising forceful control, as in its glossed sense "subdue, bring into subjection."
Innocent002003003015: The verb's sense of subjugation can carry an implicit judgment on the subdued party's conduct, though its core meaning is control rather than innocence itself.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כָּבַשׁkâbash · H3533כִּבְשָׁן kibshân · H3536 · smelting furnace, kiln · 4×כֶּבֶשׁ kebesh · H3534 · footstool · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3533. kabash [כָּבַשׁ] verb subdue, bring into bondage (Late Hebrew id., press, oppress;…

H3533. kabash
[כָּבַשׁ] verb subdue, bring into bondage (Late Hebrew id., press, oppress; Aramaic כְּבַשׁ, tread down, beat or make a path, subdue; Arabic press, squeeze, knead (body or limb, as in the bath, message), also attack, assault) —
Qal Perfect3plural וְכָֽבְשׁוּ consecutive Zec 9:15; Imperfect יִכְבּוֺשׁ Mic 7:19; וַיִּכְבְּשׁוּם Jer 34:11 Qr (Kt Hiph), etc.; Imperative plural suffix כִּבְשֻׁהָ Gen 1:28; Infinitive כְּבוֺשׁ2Ch 28:10; Est 7:8; Participle כֹּבְשִׁים Neh 5:5; —
1 bring into bondage, followed by accusative + לַעֲבָדִים Jer 34:11, Jer 34:16; 2Ch 28:10; Neh 5:5.
2 (late) subdue, force, a woman Est 7:8 (= earlier עִנָּה).
3 subdue, dominate, the earth Gen 1:28 (P), Zec 9:15 (of conquest); tread down, followed by אַבְנֵיקֶֿלַע; figurative subdue, followed by עֲוֺנֹתֵינוּ Mic 7:19.
Niph`al Perfect3feminine singular נִכְבְּשָׁה Jos 18:1 Jos 18:3t.; Participle feminine plural נִכְבָּשׁוֺת Neh 5:5; — passive of Qal 1, subject בְּנוֺתֵינוּ Neh 5:5; of Qal 3, subject הָאָרֶץ (of conquest) Num 32:22, Num 32:29; Jos 18:1 (all P), 1Ch 22:18.
Pi`el Perfect כִּבֵּשׁ 2Sa 8:11, object גּוֺיִם (of conquest).
Hiph`il Imperfect bring into bondage, followed by accusative + לַעֲבָדִים Jer 34:11 Kt (Qr Qal).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Control13 occurrences Innocent1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0