רָמַשׂ
râmas · H7430 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences
Meanings
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to creep, to crawl
Action by which certain animals with short or no legs move about
ExamplesGenesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:30 and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
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to move about
Action by which animals of every kind, including birds and sea creatures, move about within their domain
ExamplesGenesis 1:21 And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 7:21 So all creatures that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
Genesis 8:19 Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
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Literally: to move about; hence: state in which a certain location contains a large quantity of living creatures (to teem (with living creatures))
ExamplesGenesis 9:2 “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you.
Leviticus 20:25 ‘You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground, which I have distinguished for you as unclean.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
16 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated (participle) 13
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- חַיalive, living 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
14 occurrences in 6 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 8
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ אֲדָמָהground 2
- בin/on/with+ אֲדָמָהground 1
- בin/on/with+ מַיִםwater 1
- בin/on/with+ וֹhim 1
- בin/on/with+ הֶםthem 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- וֹhim 1
Named alongside itApposition
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- חַיalive, living 2
- בָּשָׂרflesh 1
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָלַלto praise 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּבְנִיתpattern, likeness, form 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Move002002001012
- Genesis 1:21, 26, 28, and 30, and 7:8, all repeatedly describe every creature "that moves" or "crawls" on the earth, richly and directly attesting the sense of creeping motion.
- Space002002001017
- Genesis 1:28's command to "fill the earth" alongside the creatures that move on it attests a sense of spatial extent or filling associated with this verb's range.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7430. ramas רָמַשׂ verb creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic touch Gently…
רָמַשׂ verb creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic touch Gently (Kam Frey); Late Hebrew רְמָשִׂים creeping things (rare)); —
Qal Imperfect3feminine singular תִּרָמשֹׁ Gen 9:2 Gen 9:2t.; Participle רֹמֵשׂ Gen 1:26 +; feminine singular רֹמֶ֫שֶׂת Lev 11:46 Lev 11:2t.; — 1
subject ground, ת אֲשֶׁר ׳כֹּל הָאֲדָמָה all with which the ground creeps (teems), i.e. all creeping things, Leviticus 20:55 (H), Gen 9:2 (P).
2 elsewhere subject animal:
a. creep, עַלהָֿאֲדָמָה Deu 4:18; Gen 7:8 (P), עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Lev 11:44 (H), Gen 1:30 (P); עַלהָֿאֲדָמָה הָרֹמֵשׂ הָרֶמֶשׂ Eze 38:20, עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Gen 1:26; Gen 7:14; Gen 8:17 (all P).
b. move lightly, glide about, of water animals, כָּלנֶֿפֶשׂ (בַּמַּיִם) הָרֹמֶצֶת הַחַיָּה Lev 11:46 (H), Gen 1:21 (P), compare Psa 69:35.
c. in General move about, of all land-animals, עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Gen 1:28; Gen 7:21; Gen 8:19 (all P); specifically of wild beasts prowling at night Psa 104:20.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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