Words

שֶׁרֶץ H8318

Home gloss

swarm (n.)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

bring forth abundantly / moving creature

Note

Cognate pair (Exod 1:7, Israel "swarmed"; Lev 11:10, 20–23 swarming things, winged and watery)

Rulings

6

Declared to share English with

• H8317 — one root: swarm (v.) / swarm (n.)

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 1

• 1:20 And Elohim said, "Let the waters swarm a swarm of living soul, and let flyers fly over the land, on the face of the hammered sheet of the skies."

Genesis 7

• 7:21 And all flesh that creeps on the land expired, among the flyers and among the beast and among the living thing and among every swarm that swarms on the land, and all the human.