H8318 שֶׁרֶץ

שֶׁרֶץ (sherets), Strong’s H8318: a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals KJV: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).. Occurs 14 times.

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sherets — a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals

KJV: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).

Derived from שָׁרַץ shârats (https://besorah.bible/word/H8317) (to wriggle)

Occurs 14 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שֶׁ֫רֶץ n.m. coll. swarmers, swarming things

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 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…
- Leviticus 5:2 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/5?v=2) — “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean…
- Leviticus 11:10 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=10) — All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures…
- Leviticus 11:20 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=20) — “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.
- Leviticus 11:21 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=21) — Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on…
- Leviticus 11:23 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=23) — But all winged creeping things which have four feet are an abomination to you.
- 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 11:31 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=31) — These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean…
- 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.