רָמַשׂ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7430

creep — used 17 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

creep tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָמַשׂ: vb. creep, move lightly, move about tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic رَمَشَ touch gently (Kam Frey); NH רְמָשִׂים creeping things (rare));— Impf. 3 fs. תִּרְמֹשׂ Gn 9:2 + 2 times; Pt. רֹמֵשׂ 1:26 +; fs. רֹמֶ֫שֶׂת Lv 11:46 + 2 times;— subj. ground, כֹּל אֲשֶׁר ת׳ הָאֲדָמָה all with which the ground creeps (teems), i.e. all creeping things, Lv 20:25 (H), Gn 9:2 (P). elsewhere subj. animal: creep, עַל־הָאֲדָמָה Dt 4:18; Gn 7:8 (P), עַל־הָאָרֶץ Lv 11:44 (H), Gn 1:30 (P); הָרֶמֶשׂ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל־הָאֲדָמָה Ez 38:20, עַל־הָאָרֶין Gn 1:26; 7:14; 8:17 (all P). move lightly, glide about, of water animals, כָּל־נֶפֶשׁ (בַּמַּיִם) הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת Lv 11:46 (H), Gn 1:21 (P), cf. ψ 69:35. in gen. move about, of all land-animals, עַל־הָאָרֶין Gn 1:28; 7:21; 8:19 (all P); specif. of wild beasts prowling at night ψ 104:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 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: creeps (7); creeping [thing] (3); it creeps (2).

In the verses

Psalms 69:35 · tree →

יְֽ֭הַלְלוּהוּ שָׁמַ֣יִם וָאָ֑רֶץ יַ֝מִּ֗ים וְֽכָל־רֹמֵ֥שׂ בָּֽם׃

Word for word: may they.praise.him heaven and earth [the].seas and every [thing.which].moves in them

JPS 1917: Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

Psalms 104:20 · tree →

תָּֽשֶׁת־חֹ֭שֶׁךְ וִ֣יהִי לָ֑יְלָה בּֽוֹ־תִ֝רְמֹ֗שׂ כָּל־חַיְתוֹ־יָֽעַר׃

Word for word: you.make darkness and it.is night in it it.moves.about every animal his of.[the].forest

JPS 1917: Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

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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).

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