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Word Study · Strong's H3532 · Hebrew

כֶּבֶשׂ

kebes

keh-bes'

a ram (just old enough to butt)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a ram (just old enough to butt)

Rendered in the KJV as

lamb, sheep.

  • 107
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 40
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 107 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 40

  • כְּבָשִׂ֥ים15
  • כֶּֽבֶשׂ־12
  • כְּבָשִׂ֧ים12
  • לַכֶּ֖בֶשׂ10
  • וְלַכְּבָשִׂ֛ים7
  • הַכֶּ֣בֶשׂ5
  • הַכְּבָשִֽׂים׃4
  • כֶּ֣בֶשׂ3
  • הַכֶּ֥בֶשׂ2
  • כֶּ֥בֶשׂ2
  • כְבָשִׂים֙2
  • כְבָשִׂ֛ים2

and 28 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 18

  • lambs39
  • a lamb14
  • and for the lambs10
  • for the lamb10
  • the lamb7
  • the lambs6
  • a male lamb4
  • male lambs4
  • [the] male lamb of2
  • and lambs2
  • the male lamb2
  • [had been] like a lamb1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 12

  • noun · masculine plural43
  • noun · masculine singular19
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural10
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular10
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular9
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular2
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmpa · 43
  • HNcmsa · 19
  • HC/Rd/Ncmpa · 10
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 10
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 9
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 6
  • HC/Ncmpa · 2
  • HC/Ncmsa · 2
  • HNcmsc · 2
  • HR/Ncmsa · 2
  • HNcmpc/Sp1bs · 1
  • HRd/Ncmpa · 1

All 107, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Exodus6 occurrences
Leviticus13 occurrences
Numbers68 occurrences
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Job1 occurrence
Proverbs1 occurrence
Isaiah3 occurrences
Jeremiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel7 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).