רָמַשׂ ramas
Hebrew word for “to creep” · Strong’s H7430 · used 17 times in 17 verses
Meaning
1) to creep, move lightly, move about, walk on all fours;
How it is translated
Glosses given for ramas in context, with how often each is used:
- which creeps 7
- creeping thing 3
- creeps 2
- creeping 1
- which crept 1
- which moves 1
- thing which moves 1
- moves about 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Leviticus | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 1 (4), Genesis 7 (3), Genesis 8 (2), Leviticus 11 (2), Genesis 9 (1), Leviticus 20 (1), Deuteronomy 4 (1), Psalms 69 (1), Psalms 104 (1), Ezekiel 38 (1)
Forms
- הרמשׂ 6
- הרמשׂת 3
- רמשׂ 3
- תרמשׂ 3
- רומשׂ 2
Words used with it
Words that share verses with ramas more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עוֹף oph “bird” 13
- חַי chay “alive” 11
- רֶמֶשׂ remes “creeping” 5
- בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 7
- שָׁרַץ sharats “to swarm” 4
- שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 6
- אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 5
- דָּגָה dagah “fish” 3
- יָם yam “sea” 5
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 5
- שֶׁרֶץ sherets “swarm” 2
- מִין min “kind” 2
Key verses
The verses using ramas that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 1:21 — And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after…
- Genesis 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the…
- Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,…
- Genesis 1:30 — And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green…
- Genesis 7:21 — And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every…
- Genesis 8:17 — Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the…
- Genesis 9:2 — And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon…
- Leviticus 11:44 — For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of…
- Leviticus 20:25 — Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast,…
- Psalms 69:34 — Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
- Psalms 104:20 — Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
- Ezekiel 38:20 — So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.