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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
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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 2 / 4 (Lev 20:16–2Ki 3:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:16 - ‘If there is a woman who approaches any animal H929 to [fn]mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal H929; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - ‘You are therefore to separate between the clean animal H929 and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make [fn]yourselves detestable by animal H929 or by bird or by anything [fn]that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:18 - ‘And the one who strikes down the life of an animal H929 shall make restitution for it, life for life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:21 - ‘Thus the one who strikes down an animal H929 shall make restitution for it, but the one who strikes down a man shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:7 - ‘Even your cattle H929 and the beasts that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - ‘And I will send out among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and cut down your cattle H929 and reduce your number so that your roads lie desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9 -

‘Now if it is an animal H929 of the kind which [fn]men can bring near as an offering to Yahweh, any such that one gives to Yahweh shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10 - ‘He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal H929 for animal H929, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - ‘If, however, it is any unclean animal H929 of the kind which [fn]men do not bring near as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall [fn]present the animal H929 before the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 -

‘However, a firstborn among animals H929, which as a firstborn belongs to Yahweh, no man may set it apart as holy; whether ox or sheep, it is Yahweh’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - ‘But if it is among the unclean animals H929, then he shall [fn]ransom it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 -

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man [fn]devotes to Yahweh out of all that he has, of man or animal H929 or of the fields of his own possession, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything [fn]devoted to destruction is most holy to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - “For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast H929. They shall be Mine; I am Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - “And you shall take the Levites for Me, I am Yahweh, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle H929 of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle H929 of the sons of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle H929 of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - “For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals H929; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - “[fn]Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal H929, which they bring near to Yahweh, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals H929 you shall redeem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - And the sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle H929 and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - And they took all the spoil and all the loot, both of man and of beast H929.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - “You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation take a count of the loot [fn]that was captured, both of man and of animal H929;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, from all the animals H929, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals H929, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - “Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle H929 shall [fn]remain there in the cities of Gilead;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “And the cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle H929 and for their herds and for all their beasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - “We took only the animals H929 as our plunder and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - “But all the animals H929 and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - the likeness of any animal H929 that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 -

but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male slave or your female slave or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle H929 or your sojourner who is within your gates, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14 - “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle H929.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - “And [fn]I will give [fn]grass in your fields for your cattle H929, and you will eat and be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, [fn]devoting it to destruction and all that is in it and its cattle H929 with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4 - “These are the animals H929 which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:6 - “And any animal H929 that divides the hoof and has the hoof split in [fn]two and [fn]chews the cud, among the animals H929, that one you may eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - “Only the women and the little ones and the animals H929 and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall consume the spoil of your enemies which Yahweh your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:21 -

‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal H929.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 -

“Blessed shall be the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and the [fn]produce of your ground and the [fn]offspring of your beasts H929, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - “And Yahweh will make you abound in prosperity, in the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and in the [fn]offspring of your beast H929 and in the [fn]produce of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - “And your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts H929 of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “Moreover, it shall eat the [fn]offspring of your herd H929 and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also will not allow grain, new wine, or oil, and the increase of your herd or the young of your flock to remain for you until they have caused you to perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - “Then Yahweh your God will [fn]prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and in the [fn]offspring of your cattle H929 and in the [fn]produce of your ground, for Yahweh will return to rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 -

‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by [fn]plague

And bitter destruction;

And the teeth of beasts H929 I will send upon them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “So you shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle H929 as plunder for yourselves. [fn]Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Israel took only the cattle H929 and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which He had commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - Now all the spoil of these cities and the cattle H929, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them. They left no one remaining who breathed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle H929.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - Now the men of Israel returned to the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle H929 and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - The Philistine also said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 of the field.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals H929 and birds and creeping things and fish.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to cut down some of the cattle H929.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 -

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom; and they went around on a seven days’ journey, and there was no water for the camp or for the cattle H929 that [fn]followed them.


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