רֶמֶשׂ remes
Hebrew word for “creeping” · Strong’s H7431 · used 17 times in 17 verses
Meaning
1) creeping things, moving things, creeping organism;
How it is translated
Glosses given for remes in context, with how often each is used:
- creeping thing 9
- creeping things 6
- moving things 1
- like creeping things 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 1 (3), Genesis 6 (2), Genesis 7 (2), Genesis 8 (2), Genesis 9 (1), 1 Kings 4 (1), Psalms 104 (1), Psalms 148 (1), Ezekiel 8 (1), Ezekiel 38 (1)
Forms
- רמשׂ 8
- הרמשׂ 6
- ורמשׂ 2
- כרמשׂ 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with remes more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עוֹף oph “bird” 10
- בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 11
- חַי chay “alive” 10
- רָמַשׂ ramas “to creep” 5
- מִין min “kind” 4
- אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 6
- דָּג dag “fish” 3
- שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 5
- אָדָם adam “man” 5
- יָם yam “sea” 4
- מִן־ min “from” 5
- תֵּבָה tevah “ark” 2
Key verses
The verses using remes that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 1:24 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
- 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 6:7 — And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;…
- Genesis 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and…
- 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 9:3 — Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- 1 Kings 4:33 — And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of…
- Psalms 104:25 — So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
- Psalms 148:10 — Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
- Ezekiel 8:10 — So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round…
- 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…
- Hosea 2:18 — And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I…
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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.