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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 21 times in 19 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 -

Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to [fn]their kind: livestock H929 and crawling things and animals of the earth according to [fn]their kind”; and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - God made the animals of the earth according to [fn]their kind, and the livestock H929 according to [fn]their kind, and everything that crawls on the ground according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 -

Then God said, “[fn]Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and [fn]let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock H929 and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:20 - The man gave names to all the livestock H929, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for [fn]Adam there was not found a helper [fn]suitable for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - Then the LORD God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

Cursed are you more than all the livestock H929,

And more than any animal of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And dust you shall eat

All the days of your life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - Then the LORD said, “I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals H929 as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - “Of the birds according to their kind, and of the animals H929 according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - “You shall take [fn]with you [fn]seven pairs of every clean animal H929, a male and his female; and two of the animals H929 that are not clean, a male and his female;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of clean animals H929 and animals H929 that are not clean and birds and everything that crawls on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14 - they and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock H929 according to [fn]their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, [fn]all sorts of birds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - So all [fn]creatures that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock H929, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - So He wiped out [fn]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals H929, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 -

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock H929 that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals H929 and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may [fn]breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 -

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took some of every kind of clean animal H929 and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock H929, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:23 - “Will their livestock and their property and all their animals H929 not be ours? Let’s just consent to them, and they will live with us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 -

Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all [fn]his household, and his livestock and all his cattle H929, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - But when that year ended, they came to him the [fn]next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the [fn]livestock H929 are my lord’s. There is nothing left [fn]for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
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