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Lamb

כֶּ֫בֶשׂStrong’s H3532

keves (ke-ve-s)

Appears in 100 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Keves is the Hebrew word usually translated “lambs”, “lamb” and “male lamb”. It appears in 100 verses of the Old Testament.

“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 12:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Lamb, sheep, young ram
How it's translated
  • lambs 39
  • a lamb 14
  • for the lamb 10
  • and for the lambs 10
  • the lamb 7
  • the lambs 6
  • a male lamb 4
  • male lambs 4

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 62
  • Leviticus 13
  • Ezekiel 7
  • Exodus 5
  • 2 Chronicles 4
  • Isaiah 3

12 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 100 verses, by book
1 Chronicles 1
29:21
2 Chronicles 4
29:2129:2229:3235:7
Ezra 1
8:35
Job 1
31:20
Proverbs 1
27:26
Isaiah 3
1:115:1711:6
Jeremiah 1
11:19
Hosea 1
4:16
Hebrew dictionary

כֶּ֫בֶשׂ keves · lamb

lamb, sheep, young ram

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.