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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 31 times in 25 verses in 'Lev' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When anyone of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of livestock H929 from the herd or the flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - ‘Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean cattle H929, or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - ‘When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal H929, or any unclean [fn]detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:25 - ‘For whoever eats the fat of the animal H929 from which [fn]an offering by fire is offered to the LORD, the person who eats it shall also be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:26 - ‘And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal H929, in any of your dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals H929 that are on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:3 - ‘Whatever has a divided hoof, showing split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals H929, that you may eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - ‘As for all the animals H929 which have a divided hoof but do not show a split hoof, or do not chew the cud, they are unclean to you; whoever touches them becomes unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 -

‘Also if one of the animals H929 dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:46 -

This is the law regarding the animal H929 and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23 - ‘Also you shall not have sexual intercourse with any animal H929 to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal H929 to [fn]mate with it; it is a perversion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19 -

‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not cross-breed two kinds of your cattle H929; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment of two kinds of material mixed together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:15 - ‘If there is a man who has sexual intercourse with an animal H929, he must be put to death; you shall also kill the animal H929.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:16

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

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 BoxLev 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 BoxLev 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 BoxLev 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 BoxLev 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

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 BoxLev 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 BoxLev 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

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 BoxLev 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

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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