Hebrew verb · H7430
רָמַשׂ
ramasraw-mas'
to creep
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: râmas
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7430is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7430
properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm
The King James renders it: creep, move.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ramas is rendered "to creep". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21הָֽרֹמֶ֡שֶׂת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's seventeen uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- which creeps7
- creeping4
- it creeps2
- it moves about1
- moves1
- which crept1
- which moves1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הָרֹמֵ֥שׂ3
- הָרֹמֵ֣שׂ2
- רוֹמֵ֣שׂ2
- רֹמֵ֖שׂ2
- הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ1
- הָֽרֹמֶ֡שֶׂת1
- הָֽרֹמֶ֥שֶׂת1
- הָרֹמֶ֖שֶׂת1
- רֹמֵ֥שׂ1
- תִ֝רְמֹ֗שׂ1
- תִּרְמֹ֧שׂ1
- תִּרְמֹ֣שׂ1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular6HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular5HVqrmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular3HTd/Vqrfsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqi3fs
Genesis
ten uses
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- הָֽרֹמֶ֡שֶׂתharomesetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: which creeps
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂharomesthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which creeps
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- הָֽרֹמֶ֥שֶׂתharomesetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: which creeps
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
- רוֹמֵ֣שׂromesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: creeping
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
- רֹמֵ֖שׂromesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: creeping
they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
- הָרֹמֵ֥שׂharomesthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which creeps
And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
- הָרֹמֵ֣שׂharomesthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which crept
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
- הָרֹמֵ֥שׂharomesthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which creeps
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
- רוֹמֵ֣שׂromesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: creeping
The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
- תִּרְמֹ֧שׂtirmosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it creeps
Leviticus
three uses
For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- הָרֹמֵ֥שׂharomesthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which creeps
This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
- הָרֹמֶ֖שֶׂתharomesetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: which moves
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
- תִּרְמֹ֣שׂtirmosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it creeps
Deuteronomy
one use
or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
- רֹמֵ֖שׂromesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: creeping
Psalms
two uses
Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
- רֹמֵ֥שׂromesverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: moves
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
- תִ֝רְמֹ֗שׂtirmosverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it moves about
Ezekiel
one use
The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.
- הָרֹמֵ֣שׂharomesthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which creeps
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.