To compute
כָּסַסStrong’s H3699kasas (ka-sas)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kasas is the Hebrew word usually translated “estimate”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to estimate, reckon, compute
How it's translated
- you will estimate 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כָּסַס kasas · to compute
(Qal) to estimate, reckon, compute
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “compute” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMPUTE, verb transitive
[Latin To lop or prune; to think, count, reckon; to cast up. The sense is probably to cast or throw together.]
- To number; to count; to reckon; to cast together several sums or particulars, to ascertain the amount or aggregate. compute the quantity of water that will fill a vessel of certain dimensions, or that will cover the surface of the earth. compute the expenses of a campaign. compute the time by weeks or days.
- To cast or estimate in the mind; to estimate the amount by known or supposed data.
- To calculate.
All definitions and other forms of “compute”
COMPUTE, noun
Computation. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.