כִּשְׂבָּה
kisbâh · H3776 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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ewe lamb
Female young of a sheep; clean animal, and allowed for food; also used for sacrifice
ExamplesLeviticus 5:6 ‘He shall also bring his guilt offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְקֵבָהfemale 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- טָלֶה ṭâleh · H2924 · lamb
- Common Hebrew term for lamb, particularly a young sheep; overlaps semantically with כִּשְׂבָּה though טָלֶה is more frequently attested
- רָחֵל râchêl · H7353 · ewe
- Female sheep, semantically related but specifically denotes the adult female rather than the young lamb
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀμνός amnós · G286 · lamb
- Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew כִּשְׂבָּה, both referring to a young sheep used in sacrifice and domestic contexts
- ἀρήν arḗn · G704 · lamb
- Greek term for a male lamb; the Hebrew term (feminine form) denotes a female lamb, creating a gender-specific contrast within the broader semantic overlap of "lamb"
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- This word's sole occurrence (Genesis 21:28-29) denotes a female lamb given by Abraham to Abimelech as a witness, 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 H3776. kisbah כִּשְׂבָּה noun feminine ewe-lamb Lev 5:6 (P).
כִּשְׂבָּה noun feminine ewe-lamb Lev 5:6 (P).
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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