LAMB

LAMB (1.) Hebrews kebes, a male lamb from the first to the third year. Offered daily at the morning and the evening sacrifice (Exodus 29=>38-42), on the Sabbath day (Numbers 28=>9), at the feast of the New Moon (28=>11), of Trumpets (29=>2), of Tabernacles (13-40), of Pentecost (Leviticus 23=>18-20), and of the Passover (Exodus 12=>5), and on many other occasions (1 Chronicles 29=>21; 2 Chronicles 29=>21; Leviticus 9=>3; 14=>10-25). (2.) Hebrews taleh, a young sucking lamb (1 Samuel 7=>9; Isaiah 65=>25). In the symbolical language of Scripture the lamb is the type of meekness and innocence (Isaiah 11=>6; 65=>25; Luke 10=>3; John 21=>15). The lamb was a symbol of Christ (Genesis 4=>4; Exodus 12=>3; 29=>38; Isaiah 16=>1; 53=>7; John 1=>36; Revelation 13=>8). Christ is called the Lamb of God (John 1=>29, 36), as the great sacrifice of which the former sacrifices were only types (Numbers 6=>12; Leviticus 14=>12-17; Isaiah 53=>7; 1 Corinthians 5=>7).