Category:Lamb

A lamb is a young sheep.

Lamb, n. Etym: [AS. lamb; akin to D. & Dan. lam, G. & Sw. lamm, OS., Goth., & Icel. lamb.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The young of the sheep.

2. Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.

3. A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized. Lamb of God, The Lamb (Script.), the Jesus Christ, in allusion to the paschal lamb. The twelve apostles of the Lamb. Revelation 21:14. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29.

-- Lamb's lettuce (Bot.), an annual plant with small obovate leaves (Valerianella olitoria), often used as a salad; corn salad. [Written also lamb lettuce.] -- Lamb's tongue, a carpenter's plane with a deep narrow bit, for making curved grooves. Knight. -- Lamb's wool. (a) The wool of a lamb. (b) Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples; -- probably from the resemblance of the pulp of roasted apples to lamb's wool. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

lamb Lamb, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lambed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lambing.]

Defn: To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Lamb - (1.) Heb. kebes, a male lamb from the first to the third year. Offered daily at the morning and the evening sacrifice (Exodus 29:38), on the Sabbath day (Numbers 28:9), at the feast of the New Moon (Numbers 28:11), of Trumpets (Numbers 29:2), of Tabernacles (Num. 29:13-40), of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:18), and of the Passover (Exodus 12:5), and on many other occasions (1 Chronicles 29:21; 2 Chronicles 29:21; Leviticus 9:3; 14:10-25). (2.) Heb. taleh, a young sucking lamb (1 Samuel 7:9; Isaiah 65:25). In the symbolical language of Scripture the lamb is the type of meekness and innocence (Isaiah 11:6; Isaiah 65:25; Luke 10:3; John 21:15). The lamb was a symbol of Christ (Genesis 4:4; Exodus 12:3; Exodus 29:38; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 53:7; John 1:36; Revelation 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 (Numbers 6:12; Leviticus 14:12; Isaiah 53:7; 1 Corinthians 5:7).