Hebrew verb · H8317
שָׁרַץ
sharatsshaw-rats'
to swarm
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shârats
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8317is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8317
to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound
The King James renders it: breed (bring forth, increase) abundantly (in abundance), 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
sharats is rendered "to swarm". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1:20יִשְׁרְצ֣וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fourteen 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 swarms6
- and it will swarm1
- and they swarmed1
- and they will swarm1
- it swarmed1
- it swarms1
- let them swarm1
- swarm1
- they swarmed1
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 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץ4
- הַשֹּׁרֵ֑ץ1
- הַשֹּׁרֶ֥צֶת1
- וַֽיִּשְׁרְצ֛וּ1
- וְשָׁרַ֣ץ1
- וְשָֽׁרְצ֣וּ1
- יִשְׁרֹ֡ץ1
- יִשְׁרְצ֣וּ1
- שָׁרַ֣ץ1
- שִׁרְצ֥וּ1
- שָׁרְצ֨וּ1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular5HTd/Vqrmsa
- Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular1HTd/Vqrfsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqv2mp
Genesis
five uses
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- יִשְׁרְצ֣וּyishretzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them swarm
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.
- שָׁרְצ֨וּsharetzuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they swarmed
And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
- הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץhashoretzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which swarms
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.”
- וְשָֽׁרְצ֣וּvesharetzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will swarm
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
- שִׁרְצ֥וּshirtzuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: swarm
Exodus
two uses
but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
- וַֽיִּשְׁרְצ֛וּvaiyishretzuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they swarmed
The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
- וְשָׁרַ֣ץvesharatzHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will swarm
Leviticus
five uses
The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
- הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץhashoretzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which swarms
Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.
- הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץhashoretzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which swarms
Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.
- הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץhashoretzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which swarms
Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
- הַשֹּׁרֵ֑ץhashoretzthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which swarms
This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
- הַשֹּׁרֶ֥צֶתhashoretzetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: which swarms
Psalms
one use
Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.
- שָׁרַ֣ץsharatzverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it swarmed
Ezekiel
one use
Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
- יִשְׁרֹ֡ץyishrotzverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it swarms
The letters
Gematria 590· 1,400 mispar gadol
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.