Sheep
כֶּ֫שֶׂבStrong’s H3775kesev (ke-sev)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kesev is the Hebrew word usually translated “among the lambs”, “young ram” and “lambs”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.”
Meaning
- Lamb, young ram, sheep
How it's translated
- among the lambs 3
- a young ram 3
- and the lambs 1
- the young rams 1
- the young ram 1
- and a young ram 1
- among the young rams 1
- a sheep 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 7
- Genesis 4
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
- Genesis 30:35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
- Genesis 30:40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.
- Leviticus 1:10And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
- Leviticus 3:7If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the LORD.
- Leviticus 4:35And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫שֶׂב kesev · sheep
lamb, young ram, sheep
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sheep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEEP, noun
sing. and plu.
- An animal of the genus Ovis, which is one of the most useful species that the Creator has bestowed upon man, and its wool constitutes a principal material of warm clothing, and its flesh is a great article of fool.
- In contempt, a silly fellow.
- Figuratively, God's people are called sheep, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
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.