STRONGS NUMBER H3526


Word Summary
kabas: to wash
Original Word: כָּבַס
Transliteration: kabas
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-bas')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to wash
Meaning: to trample, to wash
Strong's Concordance
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).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3526. kabas

[כָּבַס‎]51 verb (tread), wash (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician כבס‎ as participle; Assyrian kabâsu, tread (down), subjugate, kibšu, step, path, DlHWB) —

Qal Participle only כוֺבֵס שְׂדֵה מְסִלַּתhighway of fuller's (= treader's, washer's) field Isaiah 7:3; 36:2 = 2 Kings 18:17.

Pi`el Perfect וְכִּבֶּס‎ consecutive Leviticus 13:6 11t.; כִּבֵּסGenesis 49:11; 2 Samuel 19:25, etc.; Imperfect יְכַבֵּסLeviticus 11:25 16t.; 2 masculine singular suffix תְּכַבְּסֵנִיPsalm 51:9, etc.; Imperative suffix כַּבְּסֵנִי51:4; feminine singular כַּבְּסִיJeremiah 4:14; Participle plural מְכַבְּסִיםMalachi 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; 11:25, 28; 13:6, 34; 15:11; Numbers 8:9 +; "" רָחץ‎ (which = wash person) Leviticus 14:8-9, 15:5-6, 7, 8, 10, 11 + (׳כ‎ in Leviticus 27 t., "" ׳ר‎15t.; in Numbers 8 t., "" ׳ר‎3t.); Participle = fuller (compare Qal), only מְכ ׳בֹּרִיתMalachi 3:2.

2 wash person, only in poetry and figurative בַּנֶּתֶר תְּכַבְּסִי אִםJeremiah 2:22; לִבֵךְ מֵרָעָה כַּבְּסִי4:14; with suffix Psalm 51:4 ("" טהר‎; + מֵעָוֺן‎); 51:9 ("" חִטֵּא‎).

Pu`al Perfect וְכֻבַּס‎ consecutive Leviticus 13:58; 15:17 be washed, of garment.

Hothpa`al (Ges§ 54, 3) Infinitive אֶתהַֿנֶּגַע הֻכַּבֵּס אַחֲרֵיLeviticus 13:55 after the plague is washed out, so 13:56.