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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 3 / 4 (2Ki 3:17–Eze 14:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:17 - “For thus says the LORD, ‘You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your beasts. H929

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine and oil, pens for all kinds H929 of cattle H929 and [fn]sheepfolds for the flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - ‘Every survivor, at whatever place he may [fn]live, let the men of [fn]that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, H929 together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:6 - All those about them [fn]encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle H929 and with valuables, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my [fn]mind to do for Jerusalem and there was no animal H929 with me except the animal H929 on which I was riding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no place for [fn]my mount H929 to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - “Its abundant produce is for the kings
Whom You have set over us because of our sins;
They also rule over our bodies
And over our cattle H929 as they please,
So we are in great distress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36 - and bring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, H929 and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks as it is written in the law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:7 - “But now ask the beasts, H929 and let them teach you;
And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 - “Why are we regarded as beasts, H929
As stupid in your eyes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:11 - Who teaches us more than the beasts H929 of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:7 - All sheep and oxen,
And also the [fn]beasts H929 of the field,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - Your righteousness is like the [fn]mountains of God;
Your judgments are like a great deep.
O LORD, You preserve man and beast. H929

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:12 - But man in his [fn]pomp will not endure;
He is like the [fn]beasts H929 that [fn]perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:20 - Man in his [fn]pomp, yet without understanding,
Is like the [fn]beasts H929 that [fn]perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 - “For every beast of the forest is Mine,
The cattle H929 on a thousand hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:22 - Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like [fn]a beast H929 [fn]before You.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - [fn]He causes the grass to grow for the [fn]cattle, H929
And vegetation for the [fn]labor of man,
So that [fn]he may bring forth [fn]food from the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:38

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:38 - Also He blesses them and they multiply greatly,
And He does not let their cattle H929 decrease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:8 - [fn]He smote the firstborn of Egypt,
[fn]Both of man and beast. H929

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:9 - He gives to the beast H929 its food,
And to the young ravens which cry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:10 - Beasts and all cattle; H929
Creeping things and winged fowl;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10 - A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, H929
But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:30 - The lion which is mighty among beasts H929
And does not [fn]retreat before any,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18 - I said [fn]to myself concerning the sons of men, “God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts.” H929

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts H929 [fn]is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, H929 for all is [fn]vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast H929 descends downward to the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6 - They will be left together for mountain birds of prey,
And for the beasts H929 of the earth;
And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them,
And all the beasts H929 of the earth will spend harvest time on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The [fn]oracle concerning the beasts H929 of the Negev.
Through a land of distress and anguish,
From [fn]where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on the [fn]backs of young donkeys
And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who cannot profit them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 - Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle. H929
The things [fn]that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:14 - As the cattle H929 which go down into the valley,
The Spirit of the LORD gave [fn]them rest.
So You led Your people,
To make for Yourself a glorious name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast H929 and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - “The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts H929 of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - “For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge,
Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 have fled; they are gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long is the land to mourn
And the vegetation of the countryside to wither?
For the wickedness of those who dwell in it,
Animals H929 and birds have been snatched away,
Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - “I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the LORD: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 of the earth to devour and destroy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts H929 of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; H929 they will die of a great pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:5 - “I have made the earth, the men and the beasts H929 which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is [fn]pleasing in My sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. H929

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - ‘Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is a desolation, without man or beast; H929 it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast,” H929 that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, H929

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or beast, H929 and in all its cities, a [fn]habitation of shepherds who rest their flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the LORD, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it [fn]that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast H929 to cease from it?’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - “For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast H929 have wandered off, they have gone away!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - and say, ‘You, O LORD, have [fn]promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, [fn]whether man or beast, H929 but it will be a perpetual desolation.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts H929 and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - “Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, [fn]destroy its supply of bread, send famine against it and cut off from it both man and beast, H929

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