Lexical Definition

‎כָּבַס‎ kâbaç (kaw-bas') Washer's ^H:V
a primitive root

fuller, wash(-ing).

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

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

See Greek: ἀποπλύνω · γναφεύς · πλύνω

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 Isa 7:3; Isa 36:2 = 2Kgs 18:17. Pi`el Perfect ‎וְכִּבֶּס‎ consecutive Lev 13:6 + 11 t.; ‎כִּבֵּס‎ Gen 49:11; 2Sam 19:25*, etc.; Imperfect ‎יְכַבֵּס‎ Lev 11:25 + 16 t.; 2 masculine singular suffix ‎תְּכַבְּסֵנִי‎ Ps 51:9*, etc.; Imperative suffix ‎כַּבְּסֵנִי‎ Ps 51:4* feminine singular ‎כַּבְּסִי‎ Jer 4:14 Participle plural ‎מְכַבְּסִים‎ Mal 3:2 —

1. wash garments (i.e. by treading) Exod 19:10; Exod 19:14 (E), 2Sam 19:25* figurative of Judah Gen 49:11 elsewhere chiefly P: Lev 6:20*; Lev 11:25; Lev 11:28; Lev 13:6; Lev 13:34; Lev 15:11; +; || ‎רָחץ‎ (which = wash person) Lev 14:8; Lev 14:9; Lev 15:5; Lev 15:6; Lev 15:7; Lev 15:8; Lev 15:10; Lev 15:11 + (‎׳‎‎כ‎ in Lev 27 t., || ‎׳‎‎ר‎ 15 t.; in Num 8 t., || ‎׳‎‎ר‎ 3 t.); Participle = fuller (compare Qal), only ‎׳‎‎בֹּרִית מְכ‎ Mal 3:2.

2. wash person, only in poetry and figurative ‎אִם תְּכַבְּסִי בַּנֶּתֶר‎ Jer 2:22 ‎כַּבְּסִי מֵרָעָה לִבֵךְ‎ Jer 4:14 with suffix Ps 51:4* (|| ‎טהר‎; + ‎מֵעָוֺן‎); vPs 51:9* (|| ‎חִטֵּא‎). Pu`al Perfect ‎וְכֻבַּס‎ consecutive Lev 13:58; Lev 15:17 be washed, of garment. Hothpa`al (Ges^{«GKC:54»§ 54}, 3) Infinitive ‎אַחֲרֵי הֻכַּבֵּס‎ ‎אֶתהַֿנֶּגַע‎ Lev 13:55 after the plague is washed out, so vLev 13:56.

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