שָׁרַץ
shârats · H8317 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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to swarm, to teem
State in which an area contains large quantities of small living beings
ExamplesGenesis 1:20 Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”
Genesis 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.
Exodus 8:3 “The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house, and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
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to swarm
State in which animals are found in large quantities in a certain area
ExamplesGenesis 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;
Leviticus 11:29 ‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,
Leviticus 11:41 ‘Now every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable, not to be eaten.
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to be fruitful, to flourish, to increase
Process by which humans or animals produce much offspring, and so grow in number and strength
ExamplesGenesis 8:17 “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 9:7 “As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
Exodus 1:7 But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.
How it’s used In 2 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
13 occurrences in 7 groups
- Not stated (participle) 5
- מַיִםwater 2
- Not stated: they 2
- יְאֹרriver Nile 1
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 4 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 5
- בin/on/with+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 2
- אֵלto, toward+ כֹּלall, every, whole 1
- בin/on/with+ חֶדֶרroom 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 1 entry
- Quantity002001001046
- This verb denotes multiplying in great abundance, as in Genesis 8:17's command that every living thing breed abundantly on the earth, and Genesis 9:7's charge to be fruitful and multiply.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8317. sharats שָׁרַץ verb swarm, teem (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic crawl, = שֶׁרֶץ, so…
שָׁרַץ verb swarm, teem (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic crawl, = שֶׁרֶץ, so שִׁרְצָא (rare); Ethiopic germinate, sprout); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׁ Psa 105:30, שָֽׁרְצוּ Gen 1:21, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁרֹץ Eze 47:9, etc.; Imperative masculine plural שִׁרְצוּ Gen 9:7; Participle הַשֹּׁרֵץ Gen 7:21 +, feminine הַשֹּׁרֶ֫צֶת Lev 11:46; Hexateuch only P: —
1 swarm, teem with (accusative animal.), subject water Gen 1:20-21, compare Exodus 7:28, land Psa 105:30.
2 swarm, subject animal. Gen 8:17 (+ רָבָה מָּרָה,), Eze 47:9, הַּשֹׁרֵּץ Gen 7:21; Lev 11:29, Lev 11:41, Lev 11:42, Lev 11:46 (all עַלהָּֿרֶָּֿץ), Lev 11:43; subject men Gen 9:7 (+ רָבה מָּרָה,), Exo 1:7 (id., + עָצַם).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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