Strong's Hebrew · H3533

H3533 kâbash

כָּבַשׁ

kaw-bash'

bring into bondage, force, keep under, subdue, bring into subjection.

Looking for Greek G3533 Nikópolis? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3533. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

When kâbash is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard; positively, to conquer, subjugate, violate

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 14 times in Scripture

Numbers 32:29

“And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.”

Joshua 18:1

“Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,”

1 Chronicles 22:18

““Is not the LORD your God with you, and has He not granted you rest on every side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land has been subdued before the LORD and His people.”

Genesis 1:28

“God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.””

Jeremiah 34:16

“But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.”

Jeremiah 34:11

“but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.”

2 Samuel 8:11

“and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—”

Numbers 32:22

“then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.”

Esther 7:8

“Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.”

2 Chronicles 28:10

“And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?”

When kâbash is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what kâbash means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Numbers 32:29 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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