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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 Box Eze 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:17 - “Or if I were to bring a sword on that country and say, ‘A sword is to pass through the country,’ and I eliminated human and animal H929 life from it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - “Or if I were to send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath on it in blood to eliminate man and animal H929 from it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 -

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “How much more when I send My four [fn]severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, vicious animals, and plague to eliminate human and animal H929 life from it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “I will also reach out with My hand against Edom and eliminate human and animal H929 life from it. And I will turn it into ruins; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:8 -

‘Therefore the Lord GOD says this: “Behold, I am going to bring upon you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal H929 life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:11 - “A human foot will not pass through it, nor will the foot of an animal H929 pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:13 -

“I will also eliminate all its cattle H929 from beside many waters;

And a human foot will not muddy them anymore,

And the hoofs of animals H929 will not muddy them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - ‘I will multiply on you people and animals H929, and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will populate you as you were previously, and treat you better than at the beginning. Then you will 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 any bird or animal H929 that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces by animals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 -

How the animals H929 have groaned!

The herds of cattle have wandered aimlessly

Because there is no pasture for them;

Even the flocks of sheep have [fn]suffered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 -

Even the animals H929 of the field [fn]pant for You;

For the stream beds of water are dried up,

And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 -

Do not fear, animals H929 of the field,

For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green,

For the tree has produced its fruit,

The fig tree and the vine have yielded [fn]in full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he issued a proclamation, and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: No person, animal H929, herd, or flock is to taste anything. They are not to eat, or drink water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:8 - “But every person and animal H929 must be covered with sackcloth; and people are to call on God vehemently, and they are to turn, each one from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - “Should I not also have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 people, who do not know the difference between their right hand and their left, as well as many animals H929?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 -

The remnant of Jacob

Will be among the nations,

Among many peoples

Like a lion among the animals H929 of the forest,

Like a young lion among flocks of sheep,

Which, if he passes through,

Tramples and tears,

And there is no one who can rescue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:17 -

“For the violence [fn]done to Lebanon will [fn]overwhelm you,

And the devastation of its animals H929 [fn]by which you terrified them,

Because of human bloodshed and violence [fn]done to the land,

To the town and all its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 -

“I will remove human and animal H929 life;

I will remove the birds of the sky

And the fish of the sea,

And the [fn]ruins along with the wicked;

And I will eliminate mankind from the face of the [fn]earth,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hag 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 - “And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on mankind, on cattle H929, and on all the products of the labor of [fn]your hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:4 - And he said to him, “Run, speak to that young man there, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as open country because of the multitude of people and cattle H929 within it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - ‘For before those days there was no wage for man nor any wage for animal H929; and for him who went out or came in there was no [fn]peace because of [fn]his enemies, and I sent all the people against one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:15 - And just like this plague, there will be a plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle H929 that will be in those camps.

Search Results Continued...

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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