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Lexicon :: Strong's H929 - bᵊhēmâ

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בְּהֵמָה
Transliteration
bᵊhēmâ
Pronunciation
be-hay-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
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TWOT Reference: 208a

Strong’s Definitions

בְּהֵמָה bᵉhêmâh, be-hay-maw'; from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):—beast, cattle.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x

The KJV translates Strong's H929 in the following manner: beast (136x), cattle (53x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x
The KJV translates Strong's H929 in the following manner: beast (136x), cattle (53x).

  1. beast, cattle, animal

    1. beasts (coll of all animals)

    2. cattle, livestock (of domestic animals)

    3. wild beasts

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּהֵמָה bᵉhêmâh, be-hay-maw'; from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):—beast, cattle.
STRONGS H929: Abbreviations
בְּהֵמָה 187 noun feminine beast, animal, cattle (Arabic bdb009607) — בּ׳ Genesis 1:24 137 times; construct בֶּהֱמַת Numbers 3:41 (twice in verse) + 10 times; suffix בְּהֶמְתְּךָ Leviticus 19:19 + 4 times; בְּהֶמְתֶּ֑ךָ Exodus 20:10 + 4 times; בְּהֶמְתּוֺ Genesis 36:6; Proverbs 12:10; plural absolute בְּהֵמוֺת Deuteronomy 32:24 + 6 times + Psalm 73:22 (see below); construct בַּהֲמוֺת Psalm 8:8 + 5 times; — beast, & collective beasts (Genesis 8:1 + very often)
1. of living creatures other than man (אָדָם) Genesis 8:1; Exodus 8:13; Exodus 8:14; Exodus 9:9, 10, 22; Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 18:23 (twice in verse) (where בּ׳ is male, so Leviticus 20:16) Deuteronomy 27:21; Psalm 36:7 etc.; מֵאָדָם וְעַד בּ׳ (בּ׳ including all the larger animals) Exodus 9:25; Exodus 12:12; Psalm 135:8; Jeremiah 50:3 etc.; as inferior to man Job 18:3; Psalm 49:13; Psalm 49:21, so also Ecclesiastes 3:18, 19 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 3:21; opposed to also birds & reptiles Genesis 6:7; Genesis 7:23; Genesis 8:17 compare Ezekiel 44:31 etc.; also to fishes 1 Kings 5:13; Job 12:7 compare Job 12:8, Psalm 8:9; Zephaniah 1:3.
2. opposed to also to wild beasts חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ, הַשָּׂדֶה ח׳ Genesis 1:24, 25, 26; Genesis 2:20; Genesis 3:14; Genesis 7:14, 21; Genesis 9:10; Psalm 50:10; Psalm 148:10; Isaiah 46:1 etc.; especially therefore cattle, as owned and used by man, Genesis 47:18 (מִקְנֵה הַבּ׳) Exodus 20:10 = Deuteronomy 5:14; Leviticus 19:19; Leviticus 26:22; Numbers 3:41 (twice in verse); Numbers 3:45 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 2:35; Deuteronomy 11:15; Jonah 4:11; Zechariah 2:8; Zechariah 8:10; Zechariah 14:15; Ezra 1:4, 6; Nehemiah 9:37; Nehemiah 10:37 etc.; in one (late) passage of animal for riding (horse ? mule ?) Nehemiah 2:12 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 2:14.
3. rarely of wild beasts, especially carnivora, יַעַר בּ׳ Micah 5:7; הָאָרֶץ בּ׳ Deuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 18:6 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 15:3; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 34:20; הַשָּׂדֶה בּ׳ 1 Samuel 17:44; alone, Proverbs 30:30; שֶׁןבְּֿהֵמוֺת Deuteronomy 32:24; שֹׁד בּ׳ Habakkuk 2:17. — On בְּהֵמוֺת Psalm 73:22 compare below
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:1; 1:24; 1:24; 1:25; 1:26; 2:20; 3:14; 6:7; 7:14; 7:21; 7:23; 8:1; 8:1; 8:17; 9:10; 36:6; 47:18

Exodus

8:13; 8:14; 9:9; 9:10; 9:22; 9:25; 12:12; 20:10; 20:10; 22:18

Leviticus

18:23; 19:19; 19:19; 20:16; 26:22

Numbers

3:41; 3:41; 3:45

Deuteronomy

2:35; 5:14; 11:15; 27:21; 28:26; 32:24; 32:24

1 Samuel

17:44

1 Kings

5:13

Ezra

1:4; 1:6

Nehemiah

2:12; 2:14; 9:37; 10:37

Job

12:7; 12:8; 18:3

Psalms

8:8; 8:9; 36:7; 49:13; 50:10; 73:22; 73:22; 135:8; 148:10

Proverbs

12:10; 30:30

Ecclesiastes

3:18; 3:19; 3:21

Isaiah

18:6; 46:1

Jeremiah

7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; 50:3

Ezekiel

44:31

Jonah

4:11

Micah

5:7

Habakkuk

2:17

Zephaniah

1:3

Zechariah

2:8; 8:10; 14:15

H929

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Strong's Number H929 matches the Hebrew בְּהֵמָה (bᵊhēmâ),
which occurs 190 times in 172 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 4 (Eze 14:17–Zec 14:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:17 - Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast H929 from it:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: H929

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? H929

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast H929 from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:8 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast H929 out of thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:11 - No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast H929 shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:13 - I will destroy also all the beasts H929 thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts H929 trouble them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - And I will multiply upon you man and beast; H929 and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:31 - The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. H929

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 - How do the beasts H929 groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 - The beasts H929 of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 - Be not afraid, ye beasts H929 of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, H929 herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - But let man and beast H929 be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? H929

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts H929 of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:17 - For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, H929 which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 - I will consume man and beast; H929 I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 - And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, H929 and upon all the labour of the hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:4 - And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle H929 therein:

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; H929 neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:15 - And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts H929 that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

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1. LOAD PAGE 1 Gen 1:24–Lev 20:15

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Lev 20:16–2Ki 3:9

3. LOAD PAGE 3 2Ki 3:17–Eze 14:13

4. Currently on page 4/4 (Eze 14:17–Zec 14:15) Eze 14:17–Zec 14:15

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