kavash · subdue

What it means

kavash (כָּבַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “subdue”.

Bring under one's control and authority: of the earth, master it; of peoples, subjugate them; also force, bring into bondage.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put a land or a people under one's own power until they are held in subjection.
2. To enslave others.
3. To force a woman.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• subdued ×5
• subdue ×3
• subjected them ×2
• are subjected ×1
• are subjecting ×1
• subjugate ×1
• tread down ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×2
• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 1:28

  And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.”

• Numbers 32:22

  and the land is subdued before YHWH, then afterward you shall return and be innocent before YHWH and before Israel; and this land shall be yours as a possession before YHWH.

• Numbers 32:29

  Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben cross with you the Jordan, every armed man for the war before YHWH, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

• Joshua 18:1

  And the whole community of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and they settled the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

• 2 Samuel 8:11

  These also King David consecrated to YHWH, with the silver and the gold that he had consecrated from all the nations that he had subdued:

• 1 Chronicles 22:18

  “Is not YHWH your Elohim with you? He has given you rest on every side; for he has given into my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land has been subdued before YHWH and before his people.

• 2 Chronicles 28:10

  And now you intend to subjugate the sons of Judah and Jerusalem as male slaves and female slaves for yourselves. Are there not indeed with you yourselves acts of guilt against YHWH your Elohim?

• Nehemiah 5:5

  And now, as the flesh of our brothers is our flesh, as their sons are our sons; and look, we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are subjected, and there is no power in our hand, and our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

• Esther 7:8

  And the king returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even subdue the queen with me present in the house?” The word went out of the mouth of the king, and they covered Haman’s face.

• Jeremiah 34:11

  But afterward they turned back, and brought back the slaves and the slave women whom they had let go free, and subjected them to be slaves and slave women.

• Jeremiah 34:16

  But you turned back and profaned my name, and brought back, each one, his slave and each one his slave woman, whom you had let go free at their own will, and you subjected them to be your slaves and slave women.

• Micah 7:19

  He will again have mercy on us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast into the depths of the sea all their sins.

• Zechariah 9:15

  YHWH Tsevaot will shield them, and they will devour and tread down the stones of the sling; and they will drink, roar as with wine, and be filled like the bowl, like the corners of the altar.

And 1 more times.