Sherets — H8318

Definition

masculine noun

a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals

1. teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers
1. of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds

Usually translated as

creeping thing, creep, move, moving creature

Origin

from H8317

• Derived from Shârats (H8317)

Greek equivalents

• ereúgomai (G2044)
• herpetón (G2062)

Occurrences

Sherets occurs 15 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Leviticus (12), Deuteronomy (1)

• Genesis 1:20 — And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature (שֶׁ֖רֶץ) that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
• Genesis 7:21 — And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing (הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ) that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
• Leviticus 5:2 — Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things (שֶׁ֣רֶץ), and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
• Leviticus 11:10 — And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move (שֶׁ֣רֶץ) in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
• Leviticus 11:20 — All fowls that creep (שֶׁ֣רֶץ), going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
• Leviticus 11:21 — Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing (שֶׁ֣רֶץ) that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
• Leviticus 11:23 — But all other flying creeping things (שֶׁ֣רֶץ), which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
• Leviticus 11:29 — These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things (בַּשֶּׁ֖רֶץ) that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
• Leviticus 11:31 — These are unclean to you among all that creep (הַשָּׁ֑רֶץ): whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
• Leviticus 11:41 — And every creeping thing (הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ) that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
• Leviticus 11:42 — Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things (הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ) that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
• Leviticus 11:43 — Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing (הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ) that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
• Leviticus 11:44 — For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing (הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ) that creepeth upon the earth.
• Leviticus 22:5 — Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing (שֶׁ֖רֶץ), whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
• Deuteronomy 14:19 — And every creeping thing (שֶׁ֣רֶץ) that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.