Lamb
כֶּ֫בֶשׂStrong’s H3532keves (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:”
Meaning
- 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.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:38Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
- Exodus 29:39The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
- Exodus 29:40And 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.
- Exodus 29:41And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 4:32And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
- Leviticus 9:3And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
All 100 verses, by book
- Numbers 62
- 6:126:147:157:177:217:237:277:297:337:357:397:417:457:477:517:537:577:597:637:657:697:717:757:777:817:837:877:8815:515:1128:328:428:728:828:928:1128:1328:1428:1928:2128:2728:2929:229:429:829:1029:1329:1529:1729:1829:2029:2129:2329:2429:2629:2729:2929:3029:3229:3329:3629:37
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 29:21
- Ezra 1
- 8:35
- Job 1
- 31:20
- Proverbs 1
- 27:26
- 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.