Lexicon kabas: to wash Original Word: כָּבַסPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kabas Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-bas') Short Definition: wash NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto wash NASB Translationfuller's (3), fullers' (1), wash (38), washed (8), washes (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ כָּבַס] 51 verb (tread), wash (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician כבס as participle; Assyrian kabâsu, tread ( down), subjugate, kibšu, step, path, Dl HWB) — 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`el Perfect וְכִּבֶּס consecutive Leviticus 13:6 11t.; כִּבֵּס Genesis 49:11; 2 Samuel 19:25, etc.; Imperfect יְכַבֵּס Leviticus 11:25 16t.; 2 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 t., "" ׳ר15t.; in Numbers 8 t., "" ׳ר3t.); 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`al Perfect וְכֻבַּס consecutive Leviticus 13:58; Leviticus 15:17 be washed, of garment. Hothpa`al (Ges§ 54, 3) Infinitive אַחֲרֵי הֻכַּבֵּס אֶתהַֿנֶּגַע Leviticus 13:55 after the plague is washed out, so Leviticus 13:56.
Strong's fuller, washing 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). |
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