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H3526 כָּבַס (kâbaç) kaw-bas'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative

KJV Usage: fuller, wash(-ing)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

כָּבַס (ka.vas) — Washer's.

This name means to wash (by treading)

כָּבַס (ka.vas) — to wash. 1) to wash (by treading), be washed, perform the work of a fuller 1a) (Qal) washer, fuller, treader (participle) 1b) (Piel) to wash (garments, person) 1c) (Pual) to be washed 1d) (Hothpael) to be washed out

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb

Clean | verb pi

to wash oneself = action by which humans remove physical contamination from their bodies by dipping it in water, ≈ used figuratively to denote the removal of guilt

JER 2:22

Clean | verb pi, verb pu'al, verb hotpa'al

to wash = action by which humans remove physical or ritual contamination from their body, or from objects, by dipping it in water

GEN 49:11 · EXO 19:10 · EXO 19:14 · LEV 6:20 · LEV 11:25 · LEV 11:28 · LEV 11:40 · LEV 11:40 · LEV 13:6 · LEV 13:34 · LEV 13:54 · LEV 13:55 · LEV 13:56 · LEV 13:58 · LEV 13:58 · LEV 14:8 · LEV 14:9 · LEV 14:47 · LEV 14:47 · LEV 15:5 · LEV 15:6 · LEV 15:7 · LEV 15:8 · LEV 15:10 · LEV 15:11 · LEV 15:13 · LEV 15:17 · LEV 15:21 · LEV 15:22 · LEV 15:27 · LEV 16:26 · LEV 16:28 · LEV 17:15 · LEV 17:16 · NUM 8:7 · NUM 8:21 · NUM 19:7 · NUM 19:8 · NUM 19:10 · NUM 19:19 · NUM 19:21 · NUM 31:24 · 2SA 19:25

Innocent | verb pi | ≈ טהר

to wash, to cleanse, to purify literally: to wash; hence: = causative by which deities remove guilt from humans after they have sinned

PSA 51:4 · PSA 51:9

Professions | verb pi ptc.act

Collocation: מְכַבְּסִים

fuller = a person who washes clothes as their profession

MAL 3:2

Names of Landforms | verb qal

Collocation: שְׂדֵה כֹובֵס

Fuller's Field participle as noun: = name of a location near Jerusalem

2KI 18:17 · ISA 7:3 · ISA 36:2

Right | verb pi

Collocation: כבס לֵב

to wash (one's) heart, to stop thinking evil thoughts literally: to wash (one's) heart; hence: = action by which humans stop entertaining evil thoughts

JER 4:14

1 LEV 17:16 NJPS NIV REB NJB GNT "wash his clothes" | NRSV "wash themselves"

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[כָּבַס] 51 vb. (tread), wash Qal highway of fuller’s (= treader’s, washer’s) field

Pi. wash garments (i.e. by treading)

wash person

Pu. be washed, of garment

Hothp. after the plague is washed out

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