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# רֶמֶשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7431

**creeping things** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

creeping things [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7431/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫מֶשׂ: n.m. coll. creeping things, moving things [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7431/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 38:20 coll. creeping things, moving things;—ר׳ abs. 1 K 5:13 +, cstr. Ho 2:20 +;— creeping things (disting. from בְּהֵמָה, חַיָּה, עוֹף, צִפּוֹר, דָּג) Ho 2:20; 1 K 5:13; Ez 8:10; 38:20; Gn 1:24, 25, 26; 6:7, 20; 7:14, 23; 8:17, 19 (all P), Hb 1:14 (in sim.) ψ 148:10. of sea animals, gliding things, ψ 104:25. moving things, of all animals Gn 9:3 (P).—Cf. DrHast. DB Creeping Things.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: creeping thing\[s\] (5); thing (5); (the) creeping thing (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 148:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.148.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.148.10/#tree)

הַֽחַיָּ֥ה וְכָל־בְּהֵמָ֑ה רֶ֝֗מֶשׂ וְצִפּ֥וֹר כָּנָֽף׃

*Word for word:* O animal\[s\] and all livestock creeping.thing\[s\] and bird\[s\] of.wing

*JPS 1917:* Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl;

[Habakkuk 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.14/#tree)

וַתַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֖ם כִּדְגֵ֣י הַיָּ֑ם כְּרֶ֖מֶשׂ לֹא־מֹשֵׁ֥ל בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.have.made humankind like the.fish(es) of the.sea like creeping.thing\[s\] \[which\].not a.ruler \[is\].over it

*JPS 1917:* And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7431.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7431/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).