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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 - Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”

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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 and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - ‘Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and he is unaware of it, he also shall be unclean and guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - ‘But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20 - ‘All flying insects that creep on all fours shall be an abomination to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - ‘Yet these you may eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23 - ‘But all other flying insects which have four feet shall be an abomination to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - ‘These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the large lizard after its kind;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - ‘These are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 - ‘And every creeping thing that creeps 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 crawls on its belly, whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the earth—these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - ‘You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps; nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - ‘For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - ‘or whoever touches any creeping thing by which he would be made unclean, or any person by whom he would become unclean, whatever his uncleanness may be—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - “Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.
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