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# רָמַשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7430

**creep** — 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

creep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7430/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָמַשׂ: vb. creep, move lightly, move about [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7430/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic رَمَشَ touch gently (Kam Frey); NH רְמָשִׂים creeping things (rare));— Impf. 3 fs. תִּרְמֹשׂ Gn 9:2 + 2 times; Pt. רֹמֵשׂ 1:26 +; fs. רֹמֶ֫שֶׂת Lv 11:46 + 2 times;— subj. ground, כֹּל אֲשֶׁר ת׳ הָאֲדָמָה all with which the ground creeps (teems), i.e. all creeping things, Lv 20:25 (H), Gn 9:2 (P). elsewhere subj. animal: creep, עַל־הָאֲדָמָה Dt 4:18; Gn 7:8 (P), עַל־הָאָרֶץ Lv 11:44 (H), Gn 1:30 (P); הָרֶמֶשׂ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל־הָאֲדָמָה Ez 38:20, עַל־הָאָרֶין Gn 1:26; 7:14; 8:17 (all P). move lightly, glide about, of water animals, כָּל־נֶפֶשׁ (בַּמַּיִם) הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת Lv 11:46 (H), Gn 1:21 (P), cf. ψ 69:35. in gen. move about, of all land-animals, עַל־הָאָרֶין Gn 1:28; 7:21; 8:19 (all P); specif. of wild beasts prowling at night ψ 104:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: creeps (7); creeping \[thing\] (3); it creeps (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 69:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.35/#tree)

יְֽ֭הַלְלוּהוּ שָׁמַ֣יִם וָאָ֑רֶץ יַ֝מִּ֗ים וְֽכָל־רֹמֵ֥שׂ בָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* may they.praise.him heaven and earth \[the\].seas and every \[thing.which\].moves in them

*JPS 1917:* Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

[Psalms 104:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.20/#tree)

תָּֽשֶׁת־חֹ֭שֶׁךְ וִ֣יהִי לָ֑יְלָה בּֽוֹ־תִ֝רְמֹ֗שׂ כָּל־חַיְתוֹ־יָֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* you.make darkness and it.is night in it it.moves.about every animal his of.\[the\].forest

*JPS 1917:* Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7430.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7430/): 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).