כֶּבֶשׂ keves
Hebrew word for “lamb” · Strong’s H3532 · used 107 times in 100 verses
Meaning
lamb, sheep, young ram
How it is translated
Glosses given for keves in context, with how often each is used:
- lambs 58
- lamb 33
- male lamb 9
- male lambs 4
- among the lambs 1
- had been like a lamb 1
- like a lamb 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | 68 | 4.1 | |
| Leviticus | 13 | 1.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 7 | 0.4 | |
| Exodus | 6 | 0.4 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezra | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 |
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 7 (26), Numbers 29 (20), Numbers 28 (12), Ezekiel 46 (7), Leviticus 14 (6), Exodus 29 (4), Leviticus 23 (4), 2 Chronicles 29 (3), Numbers 6 (2), Numbers 15 (2)
Forms
- כבשׂים 42
- כבשׂ 21
- לכבשׂ 10
- ולכבשׂים 10
- הכבשׂ 9
- הכבשׂים 6
- וכבשׂ 2
- וכבשׂים 2
- ככבשׂ 2
- בכבשׂים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with keves more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אַיִל ayil “ram” 61
- פַּר par “bullock” 43
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 53
- בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 38
- עֹלָה olah “burnt offering” 37
- תָּמִים tamim “unblemished” 24
- אֶחָד echad “one” 36
- שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 31
- עַתּוּד attud “goat” 15
- נֶסֶךְ nesekh “drink offering” 16
- מִנְחָה minchah “offering” 19
- זֶבַח zevach “sacrifice” 17
Key verses
The verses using keves that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 12:5 — Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
- Exodus 29:38 — Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
- Exodus 29:40 — And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
- Leviticus 4:32 — And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
- Leviticus 14:10 — And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a…
- Numbers 28:3 — And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a…
- Numbers 28:11 — And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
- Isaiah 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight…
- Isaiah 5:17 — Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
- Isaiah 11:6 — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little…
- Jeremiah 11:19 — But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with…
- Hosea 4:16 — For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.