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Lexicon :: Strong's H929 - bᵊhēmâ

Aa
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)
Dictionary Aids

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
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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 190 times in 172 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 1:24–Lev 20:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:20 - And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14 - And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

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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 BoxGen 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 - And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:23 - Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:17 - And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:18 - And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:9 - And it will become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and will be a skin-disease bursting out in wounds on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:10 - So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:19 - Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25 - And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:5 - And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7 - But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12 - For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29 - And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2 - Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10 - If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:19 - Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:2 - Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.

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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 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:25 - For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will 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 take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:2 - Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:3 - You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - Every beast, in the horn of whose foot there is not a complete division, and whose food does not come back, is unclean to you: anyone touching one of these will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 - And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:46 - This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:23 - And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:19 - Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:15 - And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.

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