Sheep & lamb
כֶּבֶשׂ (keves)
CLEAN
Parts the hoof and chews the cud (Lev 11:3)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 440 verses (KJV)
Meat
Description
Sheep supplied meat, milk, and wool, but their most significant role in Scripture was sacrificial: a lamb without blemish had to die at Passover so its blood could mark Israel’s doorframes. Jesus later asked Peter three times to feed and tend his own flock.
Key verses
“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”
Exodus 12:5
“So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.”
John 21:15
Symbolism
The spotless lamb whose blood brought deliverance, a picture fulfilled in Christ — ‘your lamb shall be without blemish’ (Exodus 12:5).
All 440 referencesshow
- 1 Chronicles 2:9
- 1 Chronicles 2:10
- 1 Chronicles 2:25
- 1 Chronicles 2:27
- 1 Chronicles 5:21
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
- 1 Chronicles 15:26
- 1 Chronicles 17:7
- 1 Chronicles 21:17
- 1 Chronicles 29:21
- 1 Kings 1:9
- 1 Kings 1:19
- 1 Kings 1:25
- 1 Kings 4:23
- 1 Kings 8:5
- 1 Kings 8:63
- 1 Kings 22:17
- 1 Peter 1:19
- 1 Peter 2:25
- 1 Samuel 7:9
- 1 Samuel 8:17
- 1 Samuel 14:32
- 1 Samuel 14:34
- 1 Samuel 15:3
- 1 Samuel 15:9
- 1 Samuel 15:14
- 1 Samuel 15:15
- 1 Samuel 15:21
- 1 Samuel 15:22
- 1 Samuel 16:11
- 1 Samuel 16:19
- 1 Samuel 17:15
- 1 Samuel 17:20
- 1 Samuel 17:28
- 1 Samuel 17:34
- 1 Samuel 22:19
- 1 Samuel 25:2
- 1 Samuel 25:4
- 1 Samuel 25:16
- 1 Samuel 25:18
- 1 Samuel 27:9
- 2 Chronicles 5:6
- 2 Chronicles 7:5
- 2 Chronicles 13:9
- 2 Chronicles 14:15
- 2 Chronicles 15:11
- 2 Chronicles 17:11
- 2 Chronicles 18:2
- 2 Chronicles 18:16
- 2 Chronicles 29:21
- 2 Chronicles 29:22
- 2 Chronicles 29:32
- 2 Chronicles 29:33
- 2 Chronicles 30:24
- 2 Chronicles 31:6
- 2 Chronicles 35:7
- 2 Kings 3:4
- 2 Kings 5:26
- 2 Samuel 7:8
- 2 Samuel 12:3
- 2 Samuel 12:4
- 2 Samuel 12:6
- 2 Samuel 17:29
- 2 Samuel 24:17
- Acts 8:32
- Amos 6:4
- Daniel 8:3
- Daniel 8:4
- Daniel 8:6
- Daniel 8:7
- Daniel 8:20
- Deuteronomy 7:13
- Deuteronomy 14:4
- Deuteronomy 14:26
- Deuteronomy 15:19
- Deuteronomy 17:1
- Deuteronomy 18:3
- Deuteronomy 18:4
- Deuteronomy 22:1
- Deuteronomy 28:4
- Deuteronomy 28:18
- Deuteronomy 28:31
- Deuteronomy 28:51
- Deuteronomy 32:14
- Exodus 9:3
- Exodus 12:3
- Exodus 12:4
- Exodus 12:5
- Exodus 12:21
- Exodus 13:13
- Exodus 20:24
- Exodus 22:1
- Exodus 22:4
- Exodus 22:9
- Exodus 22:10
- Exodus 22:30
- Exodus 25:5
- Exodus 26:14
- Exodus 29:1
- Exodus 29:3
- Exodus 29:15
- Exodus 29:16
- Exodus 29:17
- Exodus 29:18
- Exodus 29:19
- Exodus 29:20
- Exodus 29:22
- Exodus 29:26
- Exodus 29:27
- Exodus 29:31
- Exodus 29:32
- Exodus 29:38
- Exodus 29:39
- Exodus 29:40
- Exodus 29:41
- Exodus 34:19
- Exodus 34:20
- Exodus 35:7
- Exodus 35:23
- Exodus 36:19
- Exodus 39:34
- Ezekiel 4:2
- Ezekiel 21:22
- Ezekiel 27:21
- Ezekiel 34:6
- Ezekiel 34:11
- Ezekiel 34:12
- Ezekiel 34:17
- Ezekiel 39:18
- Ezekiel 43:23
- Ezekiel 43:25
- Ezekiel 45:15
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- Ezekiel 46:4
- Ezekiel 46:5
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- Ezekiel 46:7
- Ezekiel 46:11
- Ezekiel 46:13
- Ezekiel 46:15
- Ezra 6:9
- Ezra 6:17
- Ezra 7:17
- Ezra 8:35
- Ezra 10:19
- Genesis 4:2
- Genesis 12:16
- Genesis 15:9
- Genesis 20:14
- Genesis 21:27
- Genesis 21:28
- Genesis 21:29
- Genesis 21:30
- Genesis 22:7
- Genesis 22:8
- Genesis 22:13
- Genesis 29:2
- Genesis 29:3
- Genesis 29:6
- Genesis 29:7
- Genesis 29:8
- Genesis 29:9
- Genesis 29:10
- Genesis 30:32
- Genesis 30:33
- Genesis 30:35
- Genesis 30:40
- Genesis 31:10
- Genesis 31:12
- Genesis 31:19
- Genesis 31:38
- Genesis 32:14
- Genesis 34:28
- Genesis 38:13
- Hebrews 13:20
- Hosea 4:16
- Hosea 12:12
- Isaiah 1:11
- Isaiah 5:17
- Isaiah 7:21
- Isaiah 11:6
- Isaiah 13:14
- Isaiah 16:1
- Isaiah 22:13
- Isaiah 34:6
- Isaiah 40:11
- Isaiah 53:6
- Isaiah 53:7
- Isaiah 60:7
- Isaiah 65:25
- Isaiah 66:3
- Jeremiah 11:19
- Jeremiah 12:3
- Jeremiah 23:1
- Jeremiah 50:6
- Jeremiah 50:17
- Jeremiah 51:40
- Job 1:3
- Job 1:16
- Job 31:20
- Job 32:2
- Job 42:8
- Job 42:12
- Joel 1:18
- John 1:29
- John 1:36
- John 2:14
- John 2:15
- John 5:2
- John 10:2
- John 10:3
- John 10:4
- John 10:7
- John 10:8
- John 10:11
- John 10:12
- John 10:13
- John 10:14
- John 10:15
- John 10:16
- John 10:26
- John 10:27
- John 21:15
- John 21:16
- John 21:17
- Joshua 6:4
- Joshua 6:5
- Joshua 6:6
- Joshua 6:8
- Joshua 6:13
- Joshua 6:21
- Joshua 7:24
- Judges 6:4
- Leviticus 1:10
- Leviticus 3:7
- Leviticus 4:32
- Leviticus 4:35
- Leviticus 5:6
- Leviticus 5:7
- Leviticus 5:15
- Leviticus 5:16
- Leviticus 5:18
- Leviticus 6:6
- Leviticus 7:23
- Leviticus 8:2
- Leviticus 8:18
- Leviticus 8:20
- Leviticus 8:21
- Leviticus 8:22
- Leviticus 8:29
- Leviticus 9:2
- Leviticus 9:3
- Leviticus 9:4
- Leviticus 9:18
- Leviticus 9:19
- Leviticus 12:6
- Leviticus 12:8
- Leviticus 14:10
- Leviticus 14:12
- Leviticus 14:13
- Leviticus 14:21
- Leviticus 14:24
- Leviticus 14:25
- Leviticus 16:3
- Leviticus 16:5
- Leviticus 17:3
- Leviticus 19:21
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- Leviticus 22:19
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- Leviticus 22:23
- Leviticus 22:27
- Leviticus 22:28
- Leviticus 23:12
- Leviticus 23:18
- Leviticus 23:19
- Leviticus 23:20
- Leviticus 27:26
- Luke 10:3
- Luke 15:4
- Luke 15:6
- Mark 6:34
- Mark 14:27
- Matthew 7:15
- Matthew 9:36
- Matthew 10:6
- Matthew 10:16
- Matthew 12:11
- Matthew 12:12
- Matthew 15:24
- Matthew 18:12
- Matthew 18:13
- Matthew 25:32
- Matthew 25:33
- Matthew 26:31
- Micah 2:12
- Micah 5:8
- Micah 6:7
- Nehemiah 3:1
- Nehemiah 3:32
- Nehemiah 5:18
- Nehemiah 12:39
- Numbers 5:8
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- Numbers 15:5
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- Numbers 18:17
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- Numbers 27:17
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- Numbers 29:36
- Numbers 29:37
- Numbers 31:28
- Numbers 31:32
- Numbers 31:36
- Numbers 31:37
- Numbers 31:43
- Numbers 32:24
- Numbers 32:36
- Proverbs 27:26
- Psalms 8:7
- Psalms 37:20
- Psalms 44:11
- Psalms 44:22
- Psalms 49:14
- Psalms 66:15
- Psalms 74:1
- Psalms 78:52
- Psalms 79:13
- Psalms 95:7
- Psalms 100:3
- Psalms 114:4
- Psalms 114:6
- Psalms 119:176
- Psalms 144:13
- Revelation 5:6
- Revelation 5:8
- Revelation 5:12
- Revelation 5:13
- Revelation 6:1
- Revelation 6:16
- Revelation 7:9
- Revelation 7:10
- Revelation 7:14
- Revelation 7:17
- Revelation 12:11
- Revelation 13:8
- Revelation 13:11
- Revelation 14:1
- Revelation 14:4
- Revelation 14:10
- Revelation 15:3
- Revelation 17:14
- Revelation 18:13
- Revelation 19:7
- Revelation 19:9
- Revelation 21:9
- Revelation 21:14
- Revelation 21:22
- Revelation 21:23
- Revelation 21:27
- Revelation 22:1
- Revelation 22:3
- Romans 8:36
- Ruth 4:19
- Song of Solomon 4:2
- Song of Solomon 6:6
- Zechariah 13:7