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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 Box Gen 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcase of an unclean beast, or the carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of an unclean crawling thing, and it be hid from him, -- he also is unclean and guilty;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - but all that have not fins and scales in seas and in rivers, of all that swarm in the waters, and of every living soul which is in the waters -- they shall be an abomination unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20 - Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - Yet these shall ye eat of every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four: those which have legs above their feet with which to leap upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23 - But every winged crawling thing that hath four feet shall be an abomination unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - And these shall be unclean unto you among the crawling things which crawl on the earth: the mole, and the field-mouse, and the lizard, after its kind;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - These shall be unclean unto you among all that crawl: whoever toucheth them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 - And every crawling thing which crawleth on the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - Whatever goeth on the belly, and whatever goeth on all four, and all that have a great many feet, of every manner of crawling thing which crawleth on the earth -- these ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - Ye shall not make yourselves abominable through any crawling thing which crawleth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - For I am Jehovah your God; and ye shall hallow yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean through any manner of crawling thing which creepeth on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or a man that toucheth any crawling thing whereby he becometh unclean, or a man by whom he may become unclean, whatever may be his uncleanness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - And every winged crawling thing shall be unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.
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