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Lexicon :: Strong's H8318 - šereṣ

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שֶׁרֶץ
Transliteration
šereṣ
Pronunciation
sheh'-rets
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2467a

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁרֶץ sherets, sheh'-rets; from H8317; a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals:—creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H8318 in the following manner: creeping thing (11x), creep (2x), creature (1x), move (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H8318 in the following manner: creeping thing (11x), creep (2x), creature (1x), move (1x).

  1. teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers

    1. of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁרֶץ sherets, sheh'-rets; from H8317; a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals:—creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).
STRONGS H8318: Abbreviations
† שֶׁ֫רֶץ noun masculineGenesis 7:21 collective swarmers, swarming things; — שׁ׳ absolute Leviticus 11:29 +, שָׁ֑רֶץ Leviticus 11:31; construct Leviticus 11:20 +; — swarming things (H D and P), aquatic Genesis 1:20; Leviticus 11:10; small reptiles and quadrupeds Genesis 7:21 (+ עוֺף, בְּהֵמָה, חַיָּה), Leviticus 5:2 (+ חַיָּה, בְּהֵמָה), Leviticus 11:29 (weasel, mouse, lizard), Leviticus 11:31; Leviticus 11:41; Leviticus 11:42; Leviticus 11:43 (with cognate שָׁרַץ), Leviticus 11:44, compare Leviticus 22:5; insects, הָעוֺף שׁ׳ Deuteronomy 14:19, + הַהֹלֵךְ עַלאַֿרְעַ Leviticus 11:20, 21, compare Leviticus 11:23. compare Leviticus 11:23, compare DrDB i. 519.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:20; 7:21; 7:21

Leviticus

5:2; 11:10; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21; 11:23; 11:23; 11:29; 11:29; 11:31; 11:31; 11:41; 11:42; 11:43; 11:44; 22:5

Deuteronomy

14:19

H8318

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8318 matches the Hebrew שֶׁרֶץ (šereṣ),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 -

Then God said, “Let the waters swarm and abundantly produce living creatures, and let birds soar above the earth [fn]in the open expanse of the heavens.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - All living beings that moved on the earth perished—birds and cattle (domestic animals), [wild] animals, all things that swarm and crawl on the earth, and all mankind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - ‘Or if someone touches any [ceremonially] unclean thing—whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal or the carcass of an unclean domestic animal or the carcass of unclean creeping things—even if he is unaware of it, he has become unclean, and he will be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - but whatever does not have fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all the teeming life in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are [to be considered] detestable to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20 -

‘All winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - yet of all winged insects that walk on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet with which to leap on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23 - ‘But all other winged insects which are four footed are detestable to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 -

‘These also are unclean to you among the swarming things that crawl around on the ground [and multiply profusely]: the mole, the mouse, and any kind of great lizard,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - ‘These [creatures] are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 -

‘Now everything that swarms on the ground is detestable; it is not to be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - ‘Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, and whatever has many feet among all things that swarm on the ground, you shall not eat; for they are detestable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - ‘Do not make yourselves loathsome (impure, repulsive) by [eating] any swarming thing; you shall not make yourselves unclean by them so as to defile yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - ‘For I am the LORD your God; so consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm or crawls on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or whoever touches any crawling thing by which he is made unclean, or any person by whom he is made unclean, whatever it may be,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - “And all flying insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
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