Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H8318
שֶׁ֫רֶץ
she.rets · “swarm”
Used 15 times across 3 books
Definition
1) teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers
1a) of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds
1a) of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds
Where it appears
Genesis2
Leviticus12
Deuteronomy1
In the text
Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.Genesis 7:21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:Leviticus 5:2Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.Leviticus 11:10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:Leviticus 11:20All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.Leviticus 11:21Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;Leviticus 11:23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.Leviticus 11:29These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,Leviticus 11:31These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.Leviticus 11:41And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
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