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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 2 / 4 (Lev 20:16–2Ki 3:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:16 - ‘If there is a woman who approaches any animal H929 to [fn]mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal H929; they must be put to death. They have brought their [fn]own deaths upon themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - ‘You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal H929 and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make [fn]yourselves detestable by animal H929 or by bird, or by anything [fn]that crawls on the ground, which I have distinguished for you as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:18 - ‘But the one who [fn]takes the life of an animal H929 shall make restitution, life for life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:21 - ‘So the one who [fn]kills an animal H929 shall make restitution, but the one who [fn]kills a person shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:7 - ‘Even your cattle H929 and the animals that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - ‘I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle H929, and reduce your number so that your roads become deserted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9 -

‘Now if it is an animal H929 of the kind that [fn]one can present as an offering to the LORD, any such animal that one gives to the LORD shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10 - ‘He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal H929 for animal H929, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - ‘If, however, it is any unclean animal H929 of the kind which [fn]one does not present as an offering to the LORD, then he shall place the animal H929 before the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 -

‘However, a firstborn among animals H929, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’S.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - ‘But if it is among the unclean animals H929, then he shall [fn]redeem it according to your assessment and add to it a fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your assessment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 -

‘Nevertheless, [fn]anything which someone sets apart to the LORD for [fn]destruction out of all that he has, of man or animal H929 or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold nor redeemed. Anything set apart for destruction is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - “For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I fatally struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from the human firstborn to animals H929. They shall be Mine; I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - “And you shall take the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel; and the cattle H929 of the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the cattle H929 of the sons of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - “Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle H929 of the Levites in place 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 every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the people and among the animals H929; on the day that I fatally struck all the 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 - “[fn]Every firstborn of the womb of all flesh, whether human or animal H929, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours; however you must redeem the human firstborn, and the firstborn of unclean animals H929 you shall redeem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and they plundered all their cattle H929, all their flocks, and all their property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - And they took all the plunder and all the spoils, both of people and of livestock H929.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - “You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation take a count of the spoils [fn]that were captured, both of people and of livestock H929;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn from every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, from all the animals H929; and give them to the Levites who perform the duty of the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - from the sons of Israel’s half Moses took one drawn from every fifty, both of people and of animals H929, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - “Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle H929 shall [fn]remain there in the cities of Gilead,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “The cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle H929 and for their equipment and for all their other animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - “We took only the animals H929 as our plunder, and the spoils of the cities which we had captured.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - “But all the animals H929 and the spoils of the cities we took as our plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - a representation of any animal H929 that is on the earth, a representation of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God; you shall not do any work that day, you or your son or your daughter, or your male slave or your female slave, or your ox, your donkey, or any of your cattle H929, or your [fn]resident who [fn]stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14 - “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no sterile male or infertile female among you or among your cattle H929.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - “[fn]He will also provide grass in your field for your cattle H929, and you will eat and be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - you shall most certainly strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword. [fn]Utterly destroy it and all who are in it and its cattle H929, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4 - “These are the animals H929 that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:6 - “And any animal H929 that has a divided hoof and has its hoofs split in two, and [fn]chews the cud, among the animals H929, [fn]that animal you may eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - “However, the women, the children, the animals H929, and everything that is in the city, all of its spoils, you shall take as plunder for yourself; and you shall [fn]use the spoils of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:21 -

‘Cursed is one who has sexual intercourse with any animal H929.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 -

“Blessed will be the [fn]children of your womb, the [fn]produce of your ground, and the [fn]offspring of your animals H929: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - “And the LORD will give you more than enough prosperity, in the [fn]children of your womb, in the [fn]offspring of your livestock H929, and in the [fn]produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - “Your dead bodies will [fn]serve as food for all birds of the sky and for the animals H929 of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “Furthermore, it will eat the [fn]offspring of your herd H929 and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed; a nation that will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the newborn of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have eliminated you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - “Then the LORD your God will prosper you [fn]abundantly in every work of your hand, in the [fn]children of your womb, the [fn]offspring of your cattle H929, and in the [fn]produce of your ground, for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 -

‘They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by [fn]plague

And a bitter epidemic;

And the teeth of beasts H929 I will send against them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoils and its cattle H929 as plunder for yourselves. [fn]Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Israel took only the cattle H929 and the spoils of that city as plunder for themselves, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the spoils of these cities and the cattle H929, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every person with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one breathing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD commanded [fn]through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle H929.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle H929 and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - The Philistine also said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the [fn]wild animals H929.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He told of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he told also of animals H929, birds, crawling things, and fish.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the river valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle H929.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 -

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey. But there was no water for the army or for the cattle H929 that [fn]followed them.


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