בְּהֵמָה behemah

Hebrew word for “animal” · Strong’s H929 · used 190 times in 172 verses

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Meaning

1) beast, cattle, animal; 1a) beasts (coll of all animals); 1b) cattle, livestock (of domestic animals); 1c) wild beasts

How it is translated

Glosses given for behemah in context, with how often each is used:

• livestock 61
• animals 56
• animal 36
• cattle 13
• among the livestock 9
• among the animals 4
• among livestock 2
• like the animals 2
• over the livestock 1
• among animals 1
• any of the livestock 1
• over cattle 1

Where it is used

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 27 (6), Genesis 7 (5), Exodus 9 (5), Leviticus 11 (5), Numbers 31 (5), Deuteronomy 28 (4), Ezekiel 14 (4), Genesis 1 (3), Genesis 8 (3), Exodus 13 (3)

Forms

• הבהמה 43
• בהמה 41
• ובהמה 17
• ובבהמה 13
• בבהמה 10
• בהמות 10
• ולבהמת 7
• בהמתך 6
• והבהמה 5
• בהמת 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with behemah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אָדָם adam “man” 63
• עוֹף oph “bird” 28
• רֶמֶשׂ remes “creeping” 11
• מִן־ min “from” 25
• חַי chay “alive” 19
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 18
• בְּכוֹר bekhor “firstborn” 13
• אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 15
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 16
• עַד ad “till” 20
• כָּרַת karat “to cut” 12
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 15

Key verses

The verses using behemah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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 8:1 — And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters…
• Exodus 12:12 — For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of…
• Exodus 12:29 — And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the…
• Leviticus 27:28 — Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall…
• Psalms 36:6 — Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
• Isaiah 46:1 — Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
• Jeremiah 7:20 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the…
• Jeremiah 16:4 — They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they…
• Jeremiah 27:5 — I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet…
• Ezekiel 14:13 — Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread…
• Micah 5:8 — And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of…

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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.