kesev · lamb

What it means

kesev (כֶּשֶׂב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lamb”.

Young sheep.

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. The young of the sheep, and also the sheep of the flock.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lamb ×5
• among the lambs ×3
• sheep ×3
• lambs ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Leviticus×7
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1

• Genesis 30:32

  Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every animal speckled and spotted, and every dark animal among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages.

• Genesis 30:33

  So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when you come to look over my wages before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, or dark among the lambs, if it is with me, will be counted as stolen.”

• Genesis 30:35

  On that day he removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every dark one among the lambs, and he gave them into the hands of his sons.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and he turned the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the dark in the flock of Laban; and he made for himself flocks by themselves and did not put them with the flock of Laban.

• Leviticus 1:10

  And if his offering is from the flock, from the lambs or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall present a male without defect.

• Leviticus 3:7

  If he presents a lamb as his offering, he shall present it before YHWH.

• Leviticus 4:35

  All its fat he shall remove, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace, and the priest shall offer up in smoke them on the altar, on top of the fire offerings of YHWH. So the priest shall make expiation for him for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 7:23

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: You shall not eat any fat of ox or lamb or goat.

• Leviticus 17:3

  Any man of the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,

• Leviticus 22:19

  it shall be for your acceptance: a male without defect from the herd, from the sheep, or from the goats.

• Leviticus 22:27

  “When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it shall be seven days under its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a fire offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 18:17

  But the firstborn of a bull or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy. Their blood you shall splash on the altar, and their fat you shall burn as a fire offering, for a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 14:4

  These are the beasts that you may eat: the ox, the sheep and the goat,