Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3775
כֶּשֶׂב
kesebkeh'-seb
sheep
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3775is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3775
a young sheep
The King James renders it: lamb.
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
keseb is rendered "sheep". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:32Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
Genesis 30:32בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's thirteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a young ram3
- among the lambs3
- a sheep1
- among the young rams1
- and a young ram1
- and the lambs1
- sheeps1
- the young ram1
- the young rams1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כֶּשֶׁף | kesheph | sorcery | Uses6 |
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔ים2
- בַּכְּשָׂבִ֑ים1
- בַּכְּשָׂבִ֖ים1
- הַכֶּשֶׂב֮1
- הַכְּשָׂבִ֛ים1
- וְהַכְּשָׂבִים֮1
- וְכֶ֛שֶׂב1
- כֶ֛שֶׂב1
- כֶ֤שֶׂב1
- כֶּ֥שֶׂב1
- כֶּ֜שֶׂב1
- כְשָׂבִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural4HRd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
four uses
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
- בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔יםbakesavimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the lambs
So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
- בַּכְּשָׂבִ֔יםbakesavimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the lambs
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
- בַּכְּשָׂבִ֑יםbakesavimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the lambs
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
- וְהַכְּשָׂבִים֮vehakesavimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the lambs
Leviticus
seven uses
If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to present an unblemished male.
- הַכְּשָׂבִ֛יםhakesavimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young rams
If he is presenting a lamb for his offering, he must present it before the LORD.
- כֶּ֥שֶׂבkesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a young ram
And he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and he shall burn it on the altar along with the offerings made by fire to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
- הַכֶּשֶׂב֮hakesevthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the young ram
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
- וְכֶ֛שֶׂבvekhesevconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a young ram
‘Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp or outside of it
- כֶ֛שֶׂבkhesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a young ram
must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.
- בַּכְּשָׂבִ֖יםbakesavimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the young rams
“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- כֶ֤שֶׂבkhesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a young ram
Numbers
one use
But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- כֶּ֜שֶׂבkesevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sheep
Deuteronomy
one use
These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
- כְשָׂבִ֖יםkhesavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sheeps
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.