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Lexicon :: Strong's H8318 - šereṣ

Aa
שֶׁרֶץ
Transliteration
šereṣ
Pronunciation
sheh'-rets
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2467a

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁרֶץ sherets, sheh'-rets; from H8317; a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals:—creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H8318 in the following manner: creeping thing (11x), creep (2x), creature (1x), move (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H8318 in the following manner: creeping thing (11x), creep (2x), creature (1x), move (1x).

  1. teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers

    1. of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁרֶץ sherets, sheh'-rets; from H8317; a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals:—creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).
STRONGS H8318: Abbreviations
† שֶׁ֫רֶץ noun masculineGenesis 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 DrDB i. 519.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:20; 7:21; 7:21

Leviticus

5:2; 11:10; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21; 11:23; 11:23; 11:29; 11:29; 11:31; 11:31; 11:41; 11:42; 11:43; 11:44; 22:5

Deuteronomy

14:19

H8318

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8318 matches the Hebrew שֶׁרֶץ (šereṣ),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:10 - All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:20 - Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:23 - But all other winged four-footed things which go on the earth are disgusting to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - All these are unclean to you: anyone touching them when they are dead will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 - Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:19 - Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.
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