Animal
בְּהֵמָהStrong’s H0929behemah (be-he-mah)
Appears in 172 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Behemah is the Hebrew word usually translated “animal”, “livestock” and “livestock your”. It appears in 172 verses of the Old Testament.
“And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:”
Meaning
- Beast, cattle, animalbeasts (coll of all animals) · cattle, livestock (of domestic animals) · wild beasts
How it's translated
- animal 23
- the animal 19
- the livestock 18
- livestock 15
- and animal 11
- an animal 8
- livestock your 7
- and among the livestock 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 25
- Genesis 19
- Exodus 18
- Deuteronomy 17
- Jeremiah 17
- Numbers 12
27 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 8:10In contextFor before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
- Zechariah 14:15In contextAnd so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
- Genesis 1:24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 2:20And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
All 172 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בְּהֵמָה behemah · animal
1) beast, cattle, animal 1a) beasts (coll of all animals) 1b) cattle, livestock (of domestic animals) 1c) wild beasts
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “animal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AN'IMAL, noun
[Latin animal from anima, air, breath, soul.]
All definitions and other forms of “animal”
AN'IMAL, adjective
That belongs or relates to animals; as animal functions.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.