Hebrew verb · H3533
כָּבַשׁ
kabashkaw-bash'
to subdue
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâbash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3533is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3533
to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard; positively, to conquer, subjugate, violate
The King James renders it: bring into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kabash is rendered "to subdue". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:28וְכִבְשֻׁ֑הָ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it will be subdued2
- and it has been subdued1
- and subdue it1
- and they subjugated them1
- and they will subdue1
- and you subjugated1
- being brought into bondage1
- bringing into bondage1
- he had subdued1
- he will subdue1
- it was subdued1
- to subjugate1
and 1 more, 14 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְנִכְבְּשָׁ֥ה2
- וַֽיִּכְבְּשׁ֔וּם1
- וְכִבְשֻׁ֑הָ1
- וְכָֽבְשׁוּ֙1
- וְנִכְבְּשָׁ֨ה1
- וַתִּכְבְּשׁ֣וּ1
- יִכְבֹּ֖שׁ1
- כִּבֵּֽשׁ׃1
- כֹ֠בְשִׁים1
- לִכְבּ֧וֹשׁ1
- לִכְבֹּ֛שׁ1
- נִכְבְּשָׁ֖ה1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNq3fs3Hc/VNq3fs
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Vqv2mp/Sp3fs
- Hc/Vqw2mp1Hc/Vqw2mp
- Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNp3fs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine plural1HVNrfpa
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HVqrmpa
Genesis
one use
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- וְכִבְשֻׁ֑הָvekhivshuhaconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and subdue it
Numbers
two uses
then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.
- וְנִכְבְּשָׁ֨הvenikhbeshahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will be subdued
And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
- וְנִכְבְּשָׁ֥הvenikhbeshahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will be subdued
Joshua
one use
Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
- נִכְבְּשָׁ֖הnikhbeshahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was subdued
2 Samuel
one use
and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—
- כִּבֵּֽשׁ׃kibeshverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had subdued
1 Chronicles
one use
“Is not the LORD your God with you, and has He not granted you rest on every side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land has been subdued before the LORD and His people.
- וְנִכְבְּשָׁ֥הvenikhbeshahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it has been subdued
2 Chronicles
one use
And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
- לִכְבֹּ֛שׁlikhboshpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to subjugate
Nehemiah
two uses
We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
- כֹ֠בְשִׁיםkhoeshimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: bringing into bondage
- נִכְבָּשׁוֹת֙nikhbashotverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: being brought into bondage
Esther
one use
Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
- לִכְבּ֧וֹשׁlikhbooshpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to violate
Jeremiah
two uses
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
- וַֽיִּכְבְּשׁ֔וּםvaiyakhbishumHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they subjugated them
But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
- וַתִּכְבְּשׁ֣וּvatikhbeshuHc/Vqw2mptagged: and you subjugated
Micah
one use
He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
- יִכְבֹּ֖שׁyikhboshverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will subdue
Zechariah
one use
The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.
- וְכָֽבְשׁוּ֙vekhaveshuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will subdue
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
