Strong’s H3775 · Hebrew

כֶּשֶׂב
keseb
keh'-seb

Definition

a young sheep

Etymology

apparently by transposition for H3532 (כֶּבֶשׂ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • lamb

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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