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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 -

Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms H8318 of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth [fn]across the face of the [fn]expanse of the heavens.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - And all flesh that [fn]moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming H8318 thing H8318 that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - ‘Or a person who touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming H8318 things H8318though it is hidden from him, yet he is unclean—will be guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - ‘But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the swarming H8318 life H8318 of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20 -

‘All the swarming H8318 things that fly and that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - ‘Yet these you may eat among all the swarming H8318 things that fly and that walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23 - ‘But all other swarming H8318 things that fly and that are four-footed are detestable to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 -

‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming H8318 things H8318 which swarm on the earth: the mole and the mouse and the [fn]great lizard in its kinds,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - ‘These are to you the unclean among all the swarming H8318 things H8318; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 -

‘Now every swarming H8318 thing H8318 that swarms on the earth is detestable; it shall not be eaten.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - ‘Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming H8318 thing H8318 that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - ‘Do not render [fn]yourselves detestable through any of the swarming H8318 things H8318 that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - ‘For I am Yahweh your God. Therefore, set yourselves apart as holy and be holy, for I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming H8318 things H8318 that move on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or if a man touches any teeming H8318 things H8318 by which he is made unclean or any man by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - “And all the [fn]teeming H8318 life H8318 with wings are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.
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