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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
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 3 / 4 (2Ki 3:17–Eze 14:13)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:17 - “For thus says Yahweh, ‘You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your livestock and your cattle H929.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine, and oil, stalls for all kinds H929 of H929 cattle H929, and [fn]sheepfolds for the flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 -

‘So everyone who remains, at whatever place he may sojourn, let the men of [fn]that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle H929, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:6 - All those around them [fn]strengthened them with articles of silver, with gold, with possessions, with cattle H929, and with precious things, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my heart to do for Jerusalem; and there was no animal H929 with me except the animal H929 on which I was riding.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I passed on to the Spring Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no place for [fn]my animal H929 to pass.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 -

“Its abundant produce is for the kings

Whom You have put over us because of our sins;

They also rule over our bodies

And over our cattle H929 according to their desire,

So we are in great distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36 - and to bring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle H929, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks as it is written in the law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:7 -

“But now ask the beasts H929, and let them instruct you;

And the birds of the sky, and let them tell you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 -

“Why are we regarded as beasts H929,

As dense in your eyes?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:11 -

Who teaches us more than the beasts H929 of the earth

And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:7 -

All sheep and oxen,

And also the animals H929 of the field,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 -

Your righteousness is like the [fn]mountains of God;

Your judgments are like a great deep.

O Yahweh, You save man and beast H929.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:12 -

But man in his honor will not endure;

He is like the animals H929 that [fn]perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:20 -

Man in his honor, but who does not understand,

Is like the animals H929 that [fn]perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 -

“For every beast of the forest is Mine,

The cattle H929 on a thousand hills.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:22 -

Then I was senseless and ignorant;

I was like [fn]an animal H929 [fn]before You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 -

[fn]He causes the grass to grow for the [fn]cattle H929,

And vegetation for man’s [fn]cultivation,

To bring forth [fn]food from the earth,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:38 -

Also He blesses them and they multiply greatly,

And He does not let their cattle H929 decrease.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:8 -

[fn]He struck the firstborn of Egypt,

From man to beast H929.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:9 -

Who gives to the animal H929 its food,

And to the young ravens which call out.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:10 -

Beasts and all cattle H929;

Creeping things and winged bird;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10 -

A righteous man knows the value of the life of his animal H929,

But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:30 -

The lion which is mighty among the animals H929

And does not turn back before any,

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18 - I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, “God is testing them in order for them to see that they are but beasts H929.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts H929 is the same fate for each of them. As one dies so dies the other, and they all have the same breath. So there is no advantage for man over beast H929, for all is [fn]vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast H929 descends downward to the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6 -

They will be left together for mountain birds of prey,

And for the beasts H929 of the earth;

And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them,

And all the beasts H929 of the earth will spend harvest time on them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 -

The [fn]oracle concerning the beasts H929 of the Negev.

Through a land of distress and anguish,

From [fn]where come lioness and lion, viper and flying fiery serpent,

They carry their wealth on the [fn]backs of young donkeys

And their treasures on camels’ humps,

To a people who cannot profit them;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 -

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;

Their images are on the beasts and the cattle H929.

The things [fn]that you carry are burdensome,

A load for the weary beast.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:14 -

As the cattle H929 which go down into the valley,

The Spirit of Yahweh gave [fn]them rest.

So You led Your people,

To make for Yourself a glorious name.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast H929 and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - “The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts H929 of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 -

“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,

And for the pastures of the wilderness a funeral lamentation,

Because they are turned into ruin so that no one passes through,

And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;

Both the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 have fled; they are gone.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 -

How long is the land to mourn

And the plants of every field to dry up?

Because of the evil of those who inhabit it,

Animals H929 and birds have been swept away,

Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 -

“I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 of the earth to devour and bring to ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases; they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts H929 of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “I will empty out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem to the point of destruction in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast H929; they will die of a great pestilence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:5 - “I have made the earth, the men, and the animals H929 which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is right in My eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 -

“Behold, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast H929.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - ‘Thus fields will be bought in this land of which you all are saying, “It is a desolation, without man or beast H929; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 -

“Thus says Yahweh, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast H929,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast H929,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 -

“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or beast H929, and in all its cities, [fn]an abode of shepherds who cause their flocks to lie down.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts H929 of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it [fn]that the king of Babylon will certainly come and make this land a ruin and will make man and beast H929 to cease from it?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 -

“For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast H929 have wandered off; they have gone away!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - and then you will say, ‘You, O Yahweh, have [fn]promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing inhabiting it, [fn]whether man or beast H929, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts H929 and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:13 - “Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, break its staff of bread, send famine against it, and cut off from it both man and beast H929,

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