ke.ve.s denotes a lamb, most often an animal specified for offerings and also pictured in pasture, danger, and care.

The term most often identifies lambs prescribed, counted, presented, slaughtered, or supplied in offerings; outside those settings, it denotes lambs in scenes of grazing, companionship with other animals, fleece, pastoral care, and figurative vulnerability.

1. Lambs as specified offering animals · dominant

   Plural and singular forms name animals within detailed offering directions and reports. In Exodus 29:39 the two singular tokens distinguish the animal offered in the morning from the second offered between the evenings; in Numbers 28:3 the plural form occurs in the continual daily burnt offering, and in Leviticus 14:12 the singular is presented for a guilt offering.

   Exodus 29:39Numbers 28:3Leviticus 14:12Leviticus 23:18Ezekiel 46:132 Chronicles 29:22
2. Lambs in pastoral and figurative scenes · occasional

   Outside offering clauses, the singular and plural forms identify lambs as living animals. In Isaiah 5:17 the APB renders the clause "Then lambs shall graze in their pasture"; Isaiah 11:6 places the singular alongside a wolf, Hosea 4:16 compares Israel's pasturing to that of a lamb, and Jeremiah 11:19 compares the speaker to a tame lamb led to slaughter.

   Isaiah 5:17Isaiah 11:6Hosea 4:16Jeremiah 11:19Job 31:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB normally presents the term as "lamb" or "lambs" in both offering lists and animal scenes. Because its English is a whole-verse translation, those renderings confirm the clauses' animal reference but do not independently establish every nuance.