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Lexicon :: Strong's H3526 - kāḇas

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כָּבַס
Transliteration
kāḇas
Pronunciation
kaw-bas'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 946

Strong’s Definitions

כָּבַס kâbaç, kaw-bas'; a primitive root; to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative:—fuller, wash(-ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x

The KJV translates Strong's H3526 in the following manner: wash (47x), fuller (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 51x
The KJV translates Strong's H3526 in the following manner: wash (47x), fuller (4x).

  1. to wash (by treading), be washed, perform the work of a fuller

    1. (Qal) washer, fuller, treader (participle)

    2. (Piel) to wash (garments, person)

    3. (Pual) to be washed

    4. (Hothpael) to be washed out

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כָּבַס kâbaç, kaw-bas'; a primitive root; to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative:—fuller, wash(-ing).
STRONGS H3526: Abbreviations
[כָּבַס] 51 verb (tread), wash (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician כבס as participle; Assyrian kabâsu, tread (down), subjugate, kibšu, step, path, DlHWB) —
Qal Participle only מְסִלַּת שְׂדֵה כוֺבֵס highway of fuller's (= treader's, washer's) field Isaiah 7:3; Isaiah 36:2 = 2 Kings 18:17.
Pi. Perfect וְכִּבֶּס consecutive Leviticus 13:6 11 times; כִּבֵּס Genesis 49:11; 2 Samuel 19:25, etc.; Imperfect יְכַבֵּס Leviticus 11:25 16 times; 2rd person masculine singular suffix תְּכַבְּסֵנִי Psalm 51:9, etc.; Imperative suffix כַּבְּסֵנִי Psalm 51:4; feminine singular כַּבְּסִי Jeremiah 4:14; Participle plural מְכַבְּסִים Malachi 3:2; —
1. wash garments (i.e. by treading) Exodus 19:10,14 (E), 2 Samuel 19:25; figurative of Judah Genesis 49:11; elsewhere chiefly P: Leviticus 6:20; Leviticus 11:25,28; Leviticus 13:6,34; Leviticus 15:11; Numbers 8:9 +; || רָחץ (which = wash person) Leviticus 14:8,9; Leviticus 15:5,6,7,8,10, 11 + (כ׳ in Leviticus 27 times, || ר׳ 15 times; in Numbers 8 times, || ר׳ 3 times); Participle = fuller (compare Qal), only בֹּרִית מְכ׳ Malachi 3:2.
† 2. wash person, only in poetry and figurative אִם תְּכַבְּסִי בַּנֶּתֶר Jeremiah 2:22; כַּבְּסִי מֵרָעָה לִבֵךְ Jeremiah 4:14; with suffix Psalm 51:4 (|| טהר; + מֵעָוֺן); Psalm 51:9 (|| חִטֵּא).
†Pu. Perfect וְכֻבַּס consecutive Leviticus 13:58; Leviticus 15:17 be washed, of garment.
†Hothp. (Ges§ 54, 3) Infinitive אַחֲרֵי הֻכַּבֵּס אֶתהַֿנֶּגַע Leviticus 13:55 after the plague is washed out, so Leviticus 13:56.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

49:11; 49:11

Exodus

19:10; 19:14

Leviticus

6:20; 11:25; 11:25; 11:28; 13:6; 13:6; 13:34; 13:55; 13:56; 13:58; 14:8; 14:9; 15:5; 15:6; 15:7; 15:8; 15:10; 15:11; 15:11; 15:17

Numbers

8:9

2 Samuel

19:25; 19:25

2 Kings

18:17

Psalms

51:4; 51:4; 51:9; 51:9

Isaiah

7:3; 36:2

Jeremiah

2:22; 4:14; 4:14

Malachi

3:2; 3:2

H3526

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Strong's Number H3526 matches the Hebrew כָּבַס (kāḇas),
which occurs 51 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:11 - Binding his donkey to the vine,
And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
He washed his garments in wine,
And his clothes in the blood of grapes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:10 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:14 - So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:27 - ‘Everyone who touches its flesh must be holy.[fn] And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a holy place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:25 - ‘whoever carries part of the carcass of any of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - ‘Whoever carries any such carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. It is unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:40 - ‘He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:6 - “Then the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and indeed if the sore has faded, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 - “On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scale; and indeed if the scale has not spread over the skin, and does not appear deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:54 - “then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the plague; and he shall isolate it another seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:55 - “Then the priest shall examine the plague after it has been washed; and indeed if the plague has not changed its color, though the plague has not spread, it is unclean, and you shall burn it in the fire; it continues eating away, whether the damage is outside or inside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:56 - “If the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has faded after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, whether out of the warp or out of the woof, or out of the leather.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:58

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:58 - “And if you wash the garment, either warp or woof, or whatever is made of leather, if the plague has disappeared from it, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, and shall stay outside his tent seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:9 - “But on the seventh day he shall shave all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows—all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in water, and he shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:47 - “And he who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 - ‘And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:6 - ‘He who sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:7 - ‘And he who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:8 - ‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:10 - ‘Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening. He who carries any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:11 - ‘And whomever the one who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:13 - ‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water; then he shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:17 - ‘And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 - ‘Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:22 - ‘And whoever touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:27 - ‘Whoever touches those things shall be unclean; he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 - “And he who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:28 - “Then he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:15 - “And every person who eats what died naturally or what was torn by beasts, whether he is a native of your own country or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:16 - “But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then he shall bear his guilt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:7 - “Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purification on them, and let them shave all their body, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:21 - And the Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes; then Aaron presented them, like a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 - ‘Then the priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; the priest shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8 - ‘And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - ‘And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. It shall be a statute forever to the children of Israel and to the stranger who dwells among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - ‘The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:21 - ‘It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:24 - “And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:24 - Now Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had not cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he returned in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan,[fn] the Rabsaris,[fn] and the Rabshakeh[fn] from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:2 - Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:7 - Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 - Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub[fn] your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh[fn] with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:22 - For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is marked before Me,” says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:14 - O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness,
That you may be saved.
How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - “But who can endure the day of His coming?
And who can stand when He appears?
For He is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.
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