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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)
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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
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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 2 / 4 (Lev 20:16–2Ki 3:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:16 - ‘If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - ‘You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:18 - ‘Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, animal for animal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:21 - ‘And whoever kills an animal shall restore it; but whoever kills a man shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:7 - ‘for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and your highways shall be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9 - ‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the LORD, all that anyone gives to the LORD shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10 - ‘He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - ‘If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - ‘But the firstborn of the animals, which should be the LORD’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - ‘And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation, and shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - ‘Nevertheless no devoted offering that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - “because all the firstborn are Mine. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine: I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - “And you shall take the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. The Levites shall be Mine: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - “For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them to Myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - “Everything that first opens the womb of all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether man or beast, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - And they took all the spoil and all the booty—of man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - “Count up the plunder that was taken—of man and beast—you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the children of Israel’s half you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the children of Israel’s half Moses took one of every fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - “Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “They shall have the cities to dwell in; and their common-land shall be for their cattle, for their herds, and for all their animals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - “We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - “But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - “the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14 - “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:15 - ‘And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - “you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:4 - “These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:6 - “And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - “But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which the LORD your God gives you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:21 - ‘Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - “And the LORD will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - “Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - “And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - “The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the teeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel took as booty for themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:2 - And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their common-lands for our livestock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned back against the children of Benjamin, and struck them down with the edge of the sword—from every city, men and beasts, all who were found. They also set fire to all the cities they came to.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - And Ahab had said to Obadiah, “Go into the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, so that we will not have to kill any livestock.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 - So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched on that roundabout route seven days; and there was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.

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