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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

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 4 / 4 (Eze 14:17–Zec 14:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:17 - “Or if I should bring a sword on that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass through the country and cut off man and beast H929 from it,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:19 - “Or if I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast H929 from it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “How much more when I send My four calamitous judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague to cut off man and beast H929 from it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:13 - therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off man and beast H929 from it. And I will lay it waste; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:8 -

‘Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will bring upon you a sword, and I will cut off from you man and beast H929.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:11 - “A man’s foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast H929 will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:13 -

“I will also make all its cattle H929 perish from beside many waters;

And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore,

And the hoofs of beasts H929 will not muddy them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - ‘I will multiply on you man and beast H929; and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will [fn]treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:31 - “The priests shall not eat any bird or beast H929 that has died of itself or has been torn to pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:18 -

How the beasts H929 groan!

The herds of cattle wander aimlessly

Because there is no pasture for them;

Even the flocks of sheep [fn]suffer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:20 -

Even the beasts H929 of the field [fn]pant for You;

For the water brooks are dried up,

And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 -

Do not fear, beasts H929 of the field,

For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green,

For the tree has borne its fruit;

The fig tree and the vine have yielded [fn]their full force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he cried out and said,

“In Nineveh by the [fn]decree of the king and his nobles[fn]: Do not let man, [fn]animal H929, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat, and do not let them drink water.

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“But both man and [fn]animal H929 must be covered with sackcloth; and let [fn]men call on God with their strength that each may turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in [fn]his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - “So should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many [fn]animals H929?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 -

Then the remnant of Jacob

Will be among the nations,

Among many peoples

Like a lion among the beasts H929 of the forest,

Like a young lion among flocks of sheep,

Which, if it passes through,

Tramples down and tears,

And there is none to deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:17 -

“For the violence [fn]done to Lebanon will cover you,

And the devastation of its beasts H929 [fn]by which you terrified them,

Because of human bloodshed and violence [fn]done to the land,

To the town and all its inhabitants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 -

“I will end man and beast H929;

I will end the birds of the sky

And the fish of the sea

And the [fn]ruins along with the wicked;

And I will cut off man from the face of the ground,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 - “And I called for a [fn]drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle H929, and on all the labor of [fn]your hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:4 - and said to him, “Run, speak to that young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited [fn]without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle H929 within it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - ‘For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal H929; and for him who went out or came in there was no [fn]peace because of the adversary, and I set all men one against another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:15 - And in the same way, the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle H929 that will be in those camps will be like this plague.

Search Results Continued...

1. LOAD PAGE 1 Gen 1:24–Lev 20:15

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Lev 20:16–2Ki 3:9

3. LOAD PAGE 3 2Ki 3:17–Eze 14:13

4. Currently on page 4/4 (Eze 14:17–Zec 14:15) Eze 14:17–Zec 14:15

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