# H8317 שָׁרַץ

שָׁרַץ (shârats), Strong’s H8317: to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound KJV: breed (bring forth, increase) abundantly (in abundance), creep, move.. Occurs 13 times.

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*shârats* — to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound

KJV: breed (bring forth, increase) abundantly (in abundance), creep, move.

Occurs 13 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁרַץ vb. swarm, teem

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20) — God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…
- [Genesis 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21) — God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…
- [Genesis 7:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=21) — All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the…
- [Genesis 8:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=17) — Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping…
- [Genesis 9:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=7) — Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
- [Exodus 1:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=7) — The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the…
- [Exodus 7:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=28) — The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and…
- [Leviticus 11:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=29) — “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any…
- [Leviticus 11:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=41) — “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
- [Leviticus 11:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=43) — You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean…