כִּיבּוּשׁ m. (כָּבַשׁ) 1) conquest, dominion. Y. Hor. III, 48ᶜ top בכ׳ הארץ for the conquest of Palestine. Gitt. 8ᵇ (ref. to Syria) כ׳ יחיד … כ׳ the conquest of an individual (David) is not called a (national) conquest (so as to give the land the sacred character of Palestine); ib. 47ᵃ, a. fr.—[Gen. R. s. 17 לכבוש, v. כִּינּוּס.] —2) = כֶּבֶשׁ 2, ascent, grade. Y. Erub. II, 24ᵇ bot. [read:] כל כִּיבּוּשֵׁי כבשים … מכִּי בּוּשׁוֹ וכ׳ all grades of ascents in the Temple …, with the exception of the grade of the altar-bridge which was at the rate of about ten handbreadths to three handbreadths and one third of a finger’s width (of vertical height; i.e. 10 to 3 ¹/₁₂), v. כֶּבֶשׁ.—Pl. כִּיבּוּשִׁים, כִּיבּוּשִׁין, constr. כִּיבּוּשֵׁי, v. supra. —3) (only in pl.) means of subduing one’s pride; reproof; evil prediction, penitence. Pesik. V’zoth, p. 197ᵃ הן וכִיבּוּשֵׁיהֶן they (the blessings) but also the reproofs connected therewith (Deut. ch. XXXII); Yalk. Deut. 550. Gen. R. s. 66 (ref. to Gen. XXVII, 28) [read:] יתן לך ברכות ויתן לך כיבושיהן; Yalk. Gen. 115 כיבושין הראויות לך may He give thee blessings, but also such means of preventing overbearing as may be proper for thee.—דברי כ׳ admonitions to penitence. Taan. II, 1 (15ᵃ); Tosef. ib. I, 8.