שֶׁרֶץ sherets
Hebrew word for “swarm” · Strong’s H8318 · used 15 times in 15 verses
Meaning
1) teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers; 1a) of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds
How it is translated
Glosses given for sherets in context, with how often each is used:
- swarming thing 13
- swarming things 1
- among the swarming things 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leviticus | 12 | 1.0 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 11 (10), Genesis 1 (1), Genesis 7 (1), Leviticus 5 (1), Leviticus 22 (1), Deuteronomy 14 (1)
Forms
- שׁרץ 8
- השׁרץ 6
- בשׁרץ 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with sherets more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שָׁרַץ sharats “to swarm” 6
- שֶׁקֶץ sheqets “detestation” 5
- עוֹף oph “bird” 6
- כֶם khem “you” 6
- טָמֵא tame “unclean” 4
- טָמֵא tame “to defile” 4
- אַרְבַּע arba “four” 4
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 5
- חַי chay “alive” 4
- נָגַע naga “to touch” 3
- רָמַשׂ ramas “to creep” 2
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 4
Key verses
The verses using sherets that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 1:20 — And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
- 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…
- Leviticus 5:2 — Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things,…
- Leviticus 11:10 — And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they…
- Leviticus 11:20 — All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
- Leviticus 11:29 — These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
- Leviticus 11:31 — These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 11:41 — And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
- Leviticus 11:42 — Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye…
- Leviticus 11:43 — Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled…
- 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 22:5 — Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
See all 15 verses in the Word Atlas
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.