כֶּשֶׂב
keseb · H3775 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Thing
- Sheep, lambMammals319 verses
Meanings
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lamb
The young of a sheep, either male or female, a clean animal allowed for food and also used for sacrifice
ExamplesGenesis 30:32 let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled or spotted sheep and every black sheep among the lambs, and the spotted or speckled among the goats; and those shall be my wages.
Genesis 30:33 “So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”
Genesis 30:35 So he removed on that day the striped or spotted male goats, and all the speckled or spotted female goats, every one with white on it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and put them in the care of his sons.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- פָּרַדto separate, to be separated 1
- קָרַבto come near, to offer 1
- שָׁחַטto slaughter 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 4
- מִןfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- חֶלֶבfat 2
- בְּכוֹרfirstborn 1
- שֶׂהsheep or goat 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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In the other Testament 2 words
- πρόβατον próbaton · G4263 · sheep, a person who is like a sheep
- Greek πρόβατον denotes the broader category 'sheep' (any ovine quadruped regardless of age), whereas Hebrew כֶּשֶׂב specifically denotes 'lamb' (young sheep); כֶּשֶׂב is thus a hyponym of πρόβατον, and translators render the Hebrew age-specific term with the Greek genus term when Greek lacks (or the context does not require) an equally specific age-marked lexeme.
- ἀρήν arḗn · G704 · lamb
- Greek ἀρήν specifies a male lamb, while Hebrew כֶּשֶׂב is gender-neutral in reference; ἀρήν is the appropriate Greek equivalent when the male sex of the lamb is contextually relevant or specified.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- This word denotes a lamb, a young sheep, so it belongs among domestic-animal terms.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3775. keseb כֶּ֫שֶׂב noun [masculine] lamb (transposed from preceding) — ׳כ absolute Lev…
כֶּ֫שֶׂב noun [masculine] lamb (transposed from preceding) — ׳כ absolute Lev 3:7 Lev 3:5t.; plural כְּשָׂבִים Gen 30:32 Gen 30:6t.; — lamb, as property Gen 30:32-33, Gen 30:35, Gen 30:40 (J); for sacrifice Lev 1:10; Lev 3:7; Lev 4:35; Lev 22:19; Num 18:17, compare Lev 22:27; for food Lev 7:23, compare Lev 17:3 (all P); Deu 14:4.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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