Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7431
רֶמֶשׂ
remesreh'-mes
creeping
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7431is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7431
a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal
The King James renders it: that creepeth, creeping (moving) thing.
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
remes is rendered "creeping". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across six 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 1:24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:24וָרֶ֛מֶשׂ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the creeping thing6
- creeping thing5
- the creeping thing of2
- and creeping thing1
- and creeping thing of1
- like creeping thing1
- moving thing1
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
- הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ2
- הָרֶ֛מֶשׂ2
- הָרֶ֙מֶשׂ֙2
- רֶ֥מֶשׂ2
- רֶ֙מֶשׂ֙2
- וְרֶ֖מֶשׂ1
- וָרֶ֛מֶשׂ1
- כְּרֶ֖מֶשׂ1
- רֶ֖מֶשׂ1
- רֶ֭מֶשׂ1
- רֶ֝֗מֶשׂ1
- רֶ֤מֶשׂ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Genesis
ten uses
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
- וָרֶ֛מֶשׂvaremesconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and creeping thing
God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- רֶ֥מֶשׂremesnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the creeping thing of
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.”
- הָרֶ֖מֶשׂharemesthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the creeping thing
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
- רֶ֖מֶשׂremesnoun · masculine singulartagged: creeping thing
Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
- רֶ֥מֶשׂremesnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the creeping thing of
they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
- הָרֶ֛מֶשׂharemesthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the creeping thing
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
- רֶ֙מֶשׂ֙remesnoun · masculine singulartagged: creeping thing
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.”
- הָרֶ֛מֶשׂharemesthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the creeping thing
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
- הָרֶ֙מֶשׂ֙haremesthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the creeping thing
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
- רֶ֙מֶשׂ֙remesnoun · masculine singulartagged: creeping thing
1 Kings
one use
He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
- הָרֶ֖מֶשׂharemesthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the creeping thing
Psalms
two uses
Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
- רֶ֭מֶשׂremesnoun · masculine singulartagged: moving thing
wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
- רֶ֝֗מֶשׂremesnoun · masculine singulartagged: creeping thing
Ezekiel
two uses
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
- רֶ֤מֶשׂremesnoun · masculine singulartagged: creeping thing
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.
- הָרֶ֙מֶשׂ֙haremesthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the creeping thing
Hosea
one use
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
- וְרֶ֖מֶשׂveremesconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and creeping thing of
Habakkuk
one use
You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
- כְּרֶ֖מֶשׂkeremespreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like creeping thing
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.