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# שֶׁרֶץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8318

**swarmers** — used 15 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

swarmers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8318/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫רֶץ: n.m. coll. swarmers, swarming things [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8318/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 7, 21 coll. swarmers, swarming things;—שׁ׳ abs. Lv 11:29 +, שָׁ֑רֶץ v 31; cstr. v 20 +;—swarming things (H D and P), aquatic Gn 1:20 Lv 11:10; small reptiles and quadrupeds Gn 7:21 (+ עוֹף, בְּהֵמָה, חַיָּה), Lv 5:2 (+ חַיָּה, בְּהֵמָה), 11:29 (weasel, mouse, lizard), v 31, 41, 42, 43 (c. cogn. שָׁרַץ) v 44, cf. 22:5; insects, שׁ׳ הָעוֹף Dt 14:19, + הַהֹלֵךְ עַל־אַרְבַּע Lv 11:20, 21, cf. v 23. cf. DrDB i. 518.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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: thing (6); (the) swarming thing (5); of a swarming thing (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.19/#tree)

וְכֹל֙ שֶׁ֣רֶץ הָע֔וֹף טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶ֑ם לֹ֖א יֵאָכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and every (the).swarming.thing of the.insect \[is\].unclean it to you not they.will.be.eaten

*JPS 1917:* And all winged swarming things are unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten.

[Leviticus 11:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.20/#tree)

כֹּ֚ל שֶׁ֣רֶץ הָע֔וֹף הַהֹלֵ֖ךְ עַל־אַרְבַּ֑ע שֶׁ֥קֶץ ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* every (the).swarming.thing of.(the) insect \[which\] walks on four.\[legs\] \[is\].a.detestable.thing it to you

*JPS 1917:* All winged swarming things that go upon all fours are a detestable thing unto you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8318.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8318/): 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).