H7430 רָמַשׂ (râmas) raw-mas'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to creep

Strong's Definition

properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: creep, move.

TWOT Reference: 2177

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to creep, move lightly, move about, walk on all fours

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to creep, teem (of all creeping things)

1a2) to creep (of animals)

1a3) to move lightly, glide about (of water animals)

1a4) to move about (of all land animals generally)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2795

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

רָמַשׂ (ra.ma.s) — to creep. 1) to creep, move lightly, move about, walk on all fours 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to creep, teem (of all creeping things) 1a2) to creep (of animals) 1a3) to move lightly, glide about (of water animals) 1a4) to move about (of all land animals generally)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

רמשׂ (H7430)

verb · רֶמֶשׂ

Move | verb qal

to creep, to crawl = action by which certain animals with short or no legs move about

GEN 1:26 · GEN 1:28 · GEN 1:30 · GEN 7:8 · GEN 7:14 · GEN 8:17 · LEV 11:44 · DEU 4:18 · EZK 38:20

Move | verb qal

to move about = action by which animals of every kind, including birds and sea creatures, move about within their domain

GEN 1:21 · GEN 7:21 · GEN 8:19 · LEV 11:46 · PSA 69:35 · PSA 104:20

Space | verb qal

to teem (with living creatures) literally: to move about; hence: = state in which a certain location contains a large quantity of living creatures

GEN 9:2 · LEV 20:25

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

רָמַשׂ vb. creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) base

Bible Occurrences (17)

1:21 1:26 1:28 1:30 7:8 7:14 7:21 8:17 8:19 9:2

11:44 11:46 20:25

4:18

69:34 104:20

38:20

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, [with] which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.

Genesis 1:26

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].

Genesis 1:28

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.

Genesis 1:30

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.

Genesis 7:8

[The] clean... and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

Genesis 7:14

they... and every kind of wild animal, livestock -, crawling creature......... -, bird, and winged creature -.

Genesis 7:21

And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished — birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms... upon the earth, and all mankind.

Genesis 8:17

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].