H3775 - כֶּשֶׂב (keseb)

H3775 כֶּשֶׂב (keseb) keh'-seb

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

sheep

Strong's Definition

a young sheep

Derivation: apparently by transposition for H3532 (כֶּבֶשׂ);

KJV Usage: lamb.

TWOT Reference: 949

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) lamb, young ram, sheep

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4263

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

lamb, young ram, sheep

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

כֶּשֶׂב keśeb BDB Definition: 1) lamb, young ram, sheep Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: apparently by transposition for H3532 Same Word by TWOT Number: 949 Total KJV Occurrences: 13

Bible Occurrences (13)

30:32 30:33 30:35 30:40

1:10 3:7 4:35 7:23 17:3 22:19 22:27

18:17

14:4

Genesis 30:32

Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.

Genesis 30:33

So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check... on my wages in the future.... If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.

Genesis 30:35

That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat— every one that had any white on it— and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.

Genesis 30:40

Jacob set apart the young, but made the [rest] face... the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

Leviticus 1:10

If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock — from the sheep or... goats — he is to present an unblemished male.

Leviticus 3:7

If he is presenting a lamb for his offering, he must present it before the LORD.

Leviticus 4:35

And he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and [he] shall burn it on the altar along with the food offerings to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 7:23

Speak to the Israelites... [and] say, You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.