Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8318
שֶׁרֶץ
sheretssheh'-rets
swarm
15 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 H8318is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8318
a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals
The King James renders it: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).
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
sherets is rendered "swarm". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Leviticus, 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 five 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 1:20שֶׁ֖רֶץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twelve of the word's fifteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the swarming thing6
- the swarming thing of5
- swarming thing2
- a swarming thing1
- among the swarming 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֶׁרֶשׁ | sheresh | root | Uses33 |
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- שֶׁ֣רֶץ6
- הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ5
- שֶׁ֖רֶץ2
- בַּשֶּׁ֖רֶץ1
- הַשָּׁ֑רֶץ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
two 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.”
- שֶׁ֖רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: swarming thing
And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
- הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץhasheretzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarming thing
Leviticus
twelve uses
Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.
- שֶׁ֣רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singulartagged: a swarming thing
But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
- שֶׁ֣רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the swarming thing of
All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.
- שֶׁ֣רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the swarming thing of
However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
- שֶׁ֣רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the swarming thing of
All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.
- שֶׁ֣רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the swarming thing of
The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
- בַּשֶּׁ֖רֶץbasheretzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: among the swarming thing
These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
- הַשָּׁ֑רֶץhasharetzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarming thing
Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.
- הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץhasheretzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarming thing
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.
- הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץhasheretzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarming thing
Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
- הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץhasheretzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarming thing
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.
- הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץhasheretzthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the swarming thing
or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—
- שֶׁ֖רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singulartagged: swarming thing
Deuteronomy
one use
All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
- שֶׁ֣רֶץsheretznoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the swarming thing of
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.