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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 the LORD says this: ‘You will not see wind, nor will you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you will drink, you, your livestock, and your other animals H929.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:28 - also storehouses 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 - ‘And every survivor, at whatever place he may [fn]live, the people of [fn]that place are to support him with silver and gold, with equipment and cattle H929, together with a [fn]voluntary offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:6 - And all of those around them [fn]encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with equipment, cattle H929, and with valuables, aside from everything that was given as a [fn]voluntary offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - And I got up in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my [fn]mind 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 Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no place for [fn]my mount H929 to pass.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 -

“And its abundant produce is for the kings

Whom You have set over us because of our sins;

They also rule over our bodies

And over our cattle H929 as they please,

So we are in great distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36 - and 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 just ask the animals H929, and have them teach you;

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 -

“Why are we regarded as animals H929,

As stupid in your eyes?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:11 -

Who teaches us more than the animals H929 of the earth

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

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 the great deep.

LORD, You [fn]protect mankind and animals H929.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:12 -

But man in his splendor will not endure;

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

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:20 -

Mankind in its splendor, yet without understanding,

Is like the animals H929 that [fn]perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 -

“For every animal of the forest is Mine,

The cattle H929 on a thousand hills.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:22 -

Then I was stupid and ignorant;

I was like 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 the labor of mankind,

So that [fn]they may produce [fn]food from the earth,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:38 -

He also 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,

[fn]Both human firstborn and animal H929.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:9 -

It is He who gives an animal H929 its food,

And feeds young ravens that cry.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:10 -

Animals and all cattle H929;

Crawling things and winged fowl;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10 -

A righteous person has regard for 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 animals H929

And does not [fn]retreat from anything,

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18 - I said [fn]to myself regarding the sons of mankind, “God is testing them in order for them to see that they are as animals H929, they to themselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For the fate of the sons of mankind and the fate of animals H929 [fn]is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath, and there is no advantage for mankind over animals H929, for all is futility.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who knows that the spirit of the sons of mankind ascends upward and the spirit of the animal H929 descends downward to the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6 -

They will be left together for mountain birds of prey,

And for the animals H929 of the earth;

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

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 -

The pronouncement concerning the animals H929 of the Negev:

Through a land of distress and anguish,

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

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

And their treasures on camels’ humps,

To a people who will not benefit them;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 -

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;

Their idols have become loads for the animals and the cattle H929.

The things [fn]that you carry are burdensome,

A load for the weary animal.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:14 -

Like the cattle H929 which go down into the valley,

The Spirit of the LORD gave [fn]them rest.

So You led Your people,

To make for Yourself a glorious name.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore this is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on human and animal H929 life, and on the trees of the field and 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 animals H929 of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 -

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

And for the pastures of the wilderness a song of mourning,

Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,

And the sound of the livestock is not heard;

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 -

How long is the land to mourn,

And the vegetation of the [fn]countryside to dry up?

Due to the wickedness of those who live in it,

Animals H929 and birds have been snatched away,

Because people have said, “He will not see our final end.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 -

“And I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares the LORD: “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the animals H929 of the earth to devour and destroy.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be mourned or buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground. And they will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals H929 of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “And I will frustrate the planning of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will make their carcasses food for the birds of the sky and the animals H929 of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will also strike the inhabitants of this city, both the people and the animals H929; they will die of a great plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:5 - ‘I have made the earth, mankind, 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 [fn]pleasing in My sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 -

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of mankind and the seed of animals H929.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - ‘And fields will be purchased in this land of which you say, “It is a desolation, without man or animal H929; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 -

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without animal H929,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, without man and without inhabitant and without animal H929,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 -

“This is what the LORD of armies says: ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or animal H929, and in all its cities, a pasture for shepherds who rest their flocks.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - I will hand them over to their enemies and to those who seek their lives. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals H929 of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it [fn]that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make mankind and animals H929 disappear from it?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 -

“For a nation has come up against her from the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Whether people or animals H929, they have wandered off, they have gone!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - and say, ‘You, LORD, have [fn]promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing living in it, [fn]whether man or animal H929; but it will be a permanent desolation.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of crawling things and animals 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 being unfaithful, and I stretch out My hand against it, [fn]destroy its supply of bread, send famine against it, and eliminate from it both human and animal H929 life,

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