A ram (just old enough to butt)
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H3532 names a lamb or young sheep and appears frequently in Israel's offerings, household economy, prophetic images, and scenes of vulnerability. 38, two year-old lambs are offered regularly each day, establishing a repeated rhythm of altar worship.
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H3532 names a lamb or young sheep and appears frequently in Israel's offerings, household economy, prophetic images, and scenes of vulnerability. 38, two year-old lambs are offered regularly each day, establishing a repeated rhythm of altar worship.
The BSB source-word alignment has 107 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include male lambs (34), male lamb (15), lambs (13), lamb (12), and lambs (8).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Exodus 12:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Numbers (68), Leviticus (13), Ezekiel (7), Exodus (6).
H3532 names a lamb or young sheep and appears frequently in Israel's offerings, household economy, prophetic images, and scenes of vulnerability. In Exod. 29. 38, two year-old lambs are offered regularly each day, establishing a repeated rhythm of altar worship. In Jer. 11. 19, Jeremiah describes himself as a gentle lamb led to slaughter while enemies plot to erase his name, expressing unsuspecting vulnerability rather than passive approval of abuse.
In Isa. 11. 6, a lamb dwelling with a wolf belongs to the promised peace of the righteous Davidic ruler. H3532 opens teaching on ordered worship, threatened innocence, pastoral provision, and creation's reconciliation. It does not make every lamb a direct messianic prophecy, romanticize victimization, or transfer Israel's sacrificial schedule unchanged to the church.
H3532 appears in daily, festival, purification, sin, guilt, and burnt offerings as well as flock care, clothing, judgment, vulnerability, and peace imagery. Age, sex, condition, and offering type often matter.
This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
The altar receives two year-old lambs each day as a regular offering within priestly and sanctuary instructions.
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
Jeremiah compares himself to a gentle lamb led to slaughter while conspirators secretly plan his destruction.
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
The wolf living with the lamb belongs to the prophetic portrait of peace under the Spirit-endowed ruler from Jesse's line.
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Hebrew word. A young ram at the aggressive phase of development, emphasizing virile strength rather than mere age or size
A young ram at the aggressive phase of development, emphasizing virile strength rather than mere age or size
a ram (just old enough to butt) BDB: lamb Usage: lamb, sheep.
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H3532 joins ordinary animal life to worship, livelihood, vulnerability, and hope. Daily lamb offerings train Israel's life around repeated approach to the Lord, yet the animal and ritual cannot be detached from the covenant instructions that define them. Jeremiah's gentle lamb image communicates that he did not perceive a deadly plot; it gives truthful language to threatened innocence and does not command victims to remain available to harm.
Isaiah places lamb and wolf together under the reign of Jesse's righteous heir, envisioning peace where predation no longer governs creation. Lambs also provide clothing and belong to careful flock stewardship. These uses prepare rich canonical ground for understanding Jesus as Lamb, but responsible reading does not erase the earlier texts or call every lamb a prediction.
Faithful teaching honors God's provision, protects vulnerable people, receives Christ's sufficient sacrifice, and longs for a kingdom where the strong no longer consume the weak.
Jer.11.19
H3532 is a Hebrew noun for a lamb or young sheep. Legal texts frequently add age, sex, and unblemished status, while poetry and prophecy may use the animal's gentleness or vulnerability as an explicit comparison.
John identifies Jesus as the Lamb of God, Paul speaks of Christ as Passover, and Revelation centers the slain and reigning Lamb. These connections gather sacrificial, exodus, suffering, and royal victory themes without making each H3532 occurrence an isolated prediction.