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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 - God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20 - "'Every winged swarming thing that walks on all fours is detestable to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23 - But any other winged swarming thing that has four legs is detestable to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - "'Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 - Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person's impurity -

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you - they may not be eaten.
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