Original Language Studio
Genesis 30:40
“And 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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3775 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a young sheep
- Derivation
- apparently by transposition for H3532 (כֶּבֶשׂ);
- KJV renderings
- lamb.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- כְּשָׂבִים֮ — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 13 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 30:32Genesis 30:33Genesis 30:35Leviticus 1:10Leviticus 3:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כֶּשֶׂב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.