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Lexicon :: Strong's H7430 - rāmaś

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רָמַשׂ
Transliteration
rāmaś
Pronunciation
raw-mas'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2177

Strong’s Definitions

רָמַשׂ râmas, raw-mas'; a primitive root; properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm:—creep, move.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H7430 in the following manner: creep (11x), move (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H7430 in the following manner: creep (11x), move (6x).

  1. to creep, move lightly, move about, walk on all fours

    1. (Qal)

      1. to creep, teem (of all creeping things)

      2. to creep (of animals)

      3. to move lightly, glide about (of water animals)

      4. to move about (of all land animals generally)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָמַשׂ râmas, raw-mas'; a primitive root; properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm:—creep, move.
STRONGS H7430: Abbreviations
† רָמַשׂ verb creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic bdb094211 touch Gently (Kam Frey); Late Hebrew רְמָשִׂים creeping things (rare)); —
Qal Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תִּרָמשֹׁ Genesis 9:2 2 times; Participle רֹמֵשׂ Genesis 1:26 +; feminine singular רֹמֶ֫שֶׂת Leviticus 11:46 2 times; —
1. subject ground, הָאֲדָמָה כֹּל אֲשֶׁר ת׳ all with which the ground creeps (teems), i.e. all creeping things, Leviticus 20:55 (H), Genesis 9:2 (P).
2. elsewhere subject animal:
a. creep, עַלהָֿאֲדָמָה Deuteronomy 4:18; Genesis 7:8 (P), עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Leviticus 11:44 (H), Genesis 1:30 (P); הָרֶמֶשׂ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַלהָֿאֲדָמָה Ezekiel 38:20, עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Genesis 1:26; Genesis 7:14; Genesis 8:17 (all P).
b. move lightly, glide about, of water animals, כָּלנֶֿפֶשׂ (בַּמַּיִם) הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶצֶת Leviticus 11:46 (H), Genesis 1:21 (P), compare Psalm 69:35.
c. in general move about, of all land-animals, עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Genesis 1:28; Genesis 7:21; Genesis 8:19 (all P); specifically of wild beasts prowling at night Psalm 104:20.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:21; 1:26; 1:26; 1:28; 1:30; 7:8; 7:14; 7:21; 8:17; 8:19; 9:2; 9:2

Leviticus

11:44; 11:46; 11:46

Deuteronomy

4:18

Psalms

69:35; 104:20

Ezekiel

38:20

H7430

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Strong's Number H7430 matches the Hebrew רָמַשׂ (rāmaś),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:21 - So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make man[fn] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14 - they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:46 - This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:34 - Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 - You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:20 - The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.
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