Lamb
(1.) Heb. kebes, a male lamb from the first to the third year. Offered daily at the morning and the evening sacrifice (Ex 29:38–42), on the Sabbath day (Num 28:9), at the feast of the New Moon (Num 28:11), of Trumpets (Num 29:2), of Tabernacles (13-40), of Pentecost (Lev 23:18–20), and of the Passover (Ex 12:5), and on many other occasions (1 Chr 29:21; 2 Chr 29:21; Lev 9:3; Lev 14:10–25).
(2.) Heb. taleh, a young sucking lamb (1 Sam 7:9; Isa 65:25). In the symbolical language of Scripture the lamb is the type of meekness and innocence (Isa 11:6; Isa 65:25; Luke 10:3; John 21:15).
The lamb was a symbol of Christ (Gen 4:4; Ex 12:3; Ex 29:38; Isa 16:1; Isa 53:7; John 1:36; Rev 13:8).
Christ is called the Lamb of God (John 1:29, John 1:36), as the great sacrifice of which the former sacrifices were only types (Num 6:12; Lev 14:12–17; Isa 53:7; 1 Cor 5:7).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
