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Lexicon :: Strong's H929 - bᵊhēmâ

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בְּהֵמָה
Transliteration
bᵊhēmâ
Pronunciation
be-hay-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
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TWOT Reference: 208a

Strong’s Definitions

בְּהֵמָה bᵉhêmâh, be-hay-maw'; from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):—beast, cattle.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x

The KJV translates Strong's H929 in the following manner: beast (136x), cattle (53x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x
The KJV translates Strong's H929 in the following manner: beast (136x), cattle (53x).

  1. beast, cattle, animal

    1. beasts (coll of all animals)

    2. cattle, livestock (of domestic animals)

    3. wild beasts

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּהֵמָה bᵉhêmâh, be-hay-maw'; from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):—beast, cattle.
STRONGS H929: Abbreviations
בְּהֵמָה 187 noun feminine beast, animal, cattle (Arabic bdb009607) — בּ׳ Genesis 1:24 137 times; construct בֶּהֱמַת Numbers 3:41 (twice in verse) + 10 times; suffix בְּהֶמְתְּךָ Leviticus 19:19 + 4 times; בְּהֶמְתֶּ֑ךָ Exodus 20:10 + 4 times; בְּהֶמְתּוֺ Genesis 36:6; Proverbs 12:10; plural absolute בְּהֵמוֺת Deuteronomy 32:24 + 6 times + Psalm 73:22 (see below); construct בַּהֲמוֺת Psalm 8:8 + 5 times; — beast, & collective beasts (Genesis 8:1 + very often)
1. of living creatures other than man (אָדָם) Genesis 8:1; Exodus 8:13; Exodus 8:14; Exodus 9:9, 10, 22; Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 18:23 (twice in verse) (where בּ׳ is male, so Leviticus 20:16) Deuteronomy 27:21; Psalm 36:7 etc.; מֵאָדָם וְעַד בּ׳ (בּ׳ including all the larger animals) Exodus 9:25; Exodus 12:12; Psalm 135:8; Jeremiah 50:3 etc.; as inferior to man Job 18:3; Psalm 49:13; Psalm 49:21, so also Ecclesiastes 3:18, 19 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 3:21; opposed to also birds & reptiles Genesis 6:7; Genesis 7:23; Genesis 8:17 compare Ezekiel 44:31 etc.; also to fishes 1 Kings 5:13; Job 12:7 compare Job 12:8, Psalm 8:9; Zephaniah 1:3.
2. opposed to also to wild beasts חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ, הַשָּׂדֶה ח׳ Genesis 1:24, 25, 26; Genesis 2:20; Genesis 3:14; Genesis 7:14, 21; Genesis 9:10; Psalm 50:10; Psalm 148:10; Isaiah 46:1 etc.; especially therefore cattle, as owned and used by man, Genesis 47:18 (מִקְנֵה הַבּ׳) Exodus 20:10 = Deuteronomy 5:14; Leviticus 19:19; Leviticus 26:22; Numbers 3:41 (twice in verse); Numbers 3:45 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 2:35; Deuteronomy 11:15; Jonah 4:11; Zechariah 2:8; Zechariah 8:10; Zechariah 14:15; Ezra 1:4, 6; Nehemiah 9:37; Nehemiah 10:37 etc.; in one (late) passage of animal for riding (horse ? mule ?) Nehemiah 2:12 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 2:14.
3. rarely of wild beasts, especially carnivora, יַעַר בּ׳ Micah 5:7; הָאָרֶץ בּ׳ Deuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 18:6 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 15:3; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 34:20; הַשָּׂדֶה בּ׳ 1 Samuel 17:44; alone, Proverbs 30:30; שֶׁןבְּֿהֵמוֺת Deuteronomy 32:24; שֹׁד בּ׳ Habakkuk 2:17. — On בְּהֵמוֺת Psalm 73:22 compare below
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:1; 1:24; 1:24; 1:25; 1:26; 2:20; 3:14; 6:7; 7:14; 7:21; 7:23; 8:1; 8:1; 8:17; 9:10; 36:6; 47:18

Exodus

8:13; 8:14; 9:9; 9:10; 9:22; 9:25; 12:12; 20:10; 20:10; 22:18

Leviticus

18:23; 19:19; 19:19; 20:16; 26:22

Numbers

3:41; 3:41; 3:45

Deuteronomy

2:35; 5:14; 11:15; 27:21; 28:26; 32:24; 32:24

1 Samuel

17:44

1 Kings

5:13

Ezra

1:4; 1:6

Nehemiah

2:12; 2:14; 9:37; 10:37

Job

12:7; 12:8; 18:3

Psalms

8:8; 8:9; 36:7; 49:13; 50:10; 73:22; 73:22; 135:8; 148:10

Proverbs

12:10; 30:30

Ecclesiastes

3:18; 3:19; 3:21

Isaiah

18:6; 46:1

Jeremiah

7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; 50:3

Ezekiel

44:31

Jonah

4:11

Micah

5:7

Habakkuk

2:17

Zephaniah

1:3

Zechariah

2:8; 8:10; 14:15

H929

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Strong's Number H929 matches the Hebrew בְּהֵמָה (bᵊhēmâ),
which occurs 190 times in 172 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Lev 20:16–2Ki 3:9)

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:16 - And if a woman approach unto any beast, H929 and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: H929 they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts H929 and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, H929 or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:18 - And he that killeth a beast H929 shall make it good; beast for beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:21 - And he that killeth a beast, H929 he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:7 - And for thy cattle, H929 and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, H929 and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9 - And if it be a beast, H929 whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10 - He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast H929 for beast, H929 then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - And if it be any unclean beast, H929 of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast H929 before the priest:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - Only the firstling of the beasts, H929 which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if it be of an unclean beast, H929 then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, H929 and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: H929 mine shall they be: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle H929 of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle H929 of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle H929 of the Levites instead of their cattle; H929 and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: H929 on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, H929 shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts H929 shalt thou redeem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, H929 and all their flocks, and all their goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. H929

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, H929 thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, H929 and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, H929 and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, H929 shall be there in the cities of Gilead:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, H929 and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - Only the cattle H929 we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - But all the cattle, H929 and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - The likeness of any beast H929 that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, H929 nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14 - Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. H929

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, H929 that thou mayest eat and be full.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle H929 thereof, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4 - These are the beasts H929 which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:6 - And every beast H929 that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, H929 that ye shall eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, H929 and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:21 - Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. H929 And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, H929 the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, H929 and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts H929 of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, H929 and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, H929 and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts H929 upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle H929 thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Only the cattle H929 and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, H929 the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle. H929

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, H929 and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts H929 of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, H929 and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. H929

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 - So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle H929 that followed them.

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