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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #8318 - שֶׁרֶץ

Transliteration

sherets

Phonetics

sheh'-rets

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H8317)

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TWOT

2467a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers

1a) of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2044 ‑ ἐρεύγομαι (er‑yoog'‑om‑ahee); 2062 ‑ ἑρπετόν (her‑pet‑on');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (15)

Genesis 2

Leviticus 12

Deuteronomy 1

NAS (26)

Genesis 3

Leviticus 21

Deuteronomy 2

HCS (14)

Genesis 1

Leviticus 12

Deuteronomy 1

BSB (17)

Genesis 4

Leviticus 12

Deuteronomy 1

ESV (64)

Genesis 2

Exodus 40

Leviticus 13

Deuteronomy 1

Song of Solomon 8

WEB (16)

Genesis 2

Leviticus 13

Deuteronomy 1

KJV (15)

creature 1

creep 2

creeping 1

move 1

thing 6

things 4

NAS (26)

insects 3

life 2

swarming 8

swarms 1

teeming 3

thing 3

things 6

HCS (14)

creature 1

creatures 4

insects 4

swarming creature 3

swarming creatures 1

the swarming things 1

BSB (17)

crawling creature 3

creature 3

creature that swarms 2

creatures 5

insects 1

that swarm 1

the crawling creatures 1

the teeming 1

ESV (64)

creatures 1

insects 3

swarm 1

swarming 5

swarming creatures 1

swarming thing 1

swarming things 2

swarms 49

that 1

WEB (16)

* 1

any creeping thing 1

creatures 1

creeping 1

creeping things 3

even all creeping things 1

every creeping thing 1

insects 1

of all that move 1

that walk 1

to you among all that creep 1

to you among the creeping things 1

with any creeping thing 1

with any kind of creeping thing 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2881) y r s (סהרתס ShRTs) AC: Swarmer CO: Swarmer AB: ?: The moving mass of a swarm.

V) y r s (סהרתס ShRTs) - Swarmer: KJV (14): (vf: Paal) creep, abundantly, move, breed, increase - Strongs: H8317 (שָׁרַץ)

N^m) y r s (סהרתס ShRTs) - Swarmer: KJV (15): creeping, creep, creature, move - Strongs: H8318 (שֶׁרֶץ)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

שֶׁ֫רֶץ noun masculine^{Genesis 7:21}

collective swarmers, swarming things; — ׳שׁ absolute Leviticus 11:29 +, שָׁ֑רֶץ Leviticus 11:31; construct Leviticus 11:20 +; — swarming things (H D and P), aquatic Genesis 1:20; Leviticus 11:10; small reptiles and quadrupeds Genesis 7:21 (+ עוֺף, בְּהֵמָה, חַיָּה), Leviticus 5:2 (+ חַיָּה, בְּהֵמָה), Leviticus 11:29 (weasel, mouse, lizard), Leviticus 11:31; Leviticus 11:41; Leviticus 11:42; Leviticus 11:43 (with cognate שָׁרַץ), Leviticus 11:44, compare Leviticus 22:5; insects, הָעוֺף׳שׁ Deuteronomy 14:19, + הַהֹלֵךְ עַלאַֿרְעַ Leviticus 11:20,21, compare Leviticus 11:23. compare Leviticus 11:23,. compare Dr^{DB i. 519}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

שֶׁרֶץ m., collect.

(1) reptiles, Genesis 7:21; Leviticus 5:2, 11:29. Verse 20, “winged reptiles (שֶׁרֶץ הָעוֹף) that walk on four” (feet), are bats (not crickets which have six legs, though they are said to use only four of them in walking), Leviticus 21:23; Deuteronomy 14:19.

(2) smaller aquatic animals, Genesis 1:20 more fully שֶׁרֶץ הַמַּיִם Leviticus 11:10.

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List of Word Forms

בַּשֶּׁ֖רֶץ בשרץ הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הַשָּׁ֑רֶץ השרץ שֶׁ֖רֶץ שֶׁ֣רֶץ שרץ baš·še·reṣ bashSheretz baššereṣ haš·šā·reṣ haš·še·reṣ hashSharetz hashSheretz haššāreṣ haššereṣ še·reṣ šereṣ Sheretz