To creep
רָמַשׂStrong’s H7430ramas (ra-ma-s)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ramas is the Hebrew word usually translated “which creeps”, “creeping” and “which crept”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
Meaning
- To creep, move lightly, move about, walk on all fours(Qal)
How it's translated
- which creeps 7
- creeping 4
- which crept 1
- creeps 1
- which moves 1
- it creeps 1
- moves 1
- it moves about 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 10
- Leviticus 3
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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 1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Genesis 7:8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
- Genesis 7:14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
- Genesis 7:21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
Hebrew dictionary
רָמַשׂ ramas · 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)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “creep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CREEP, verb intransitive
[Gr., the sense is to catch, to grapple; Latin, to scrape or scratch.]
- To move with the belly on the ground, or the surface of any other body, as a worm or serpent without legs, or as many insects with feet and very short legs; to crawl.
- To move along the ground, or on the surface of any other body, in growth, as a vine; to grow along.
- To move slowly, feebly or timorously; as an old or infirm man, who creeps about his chamber.
- To move slowly and insensibly, as time.
All definitions
- To move secretly; to move so as to escape detection, or prevent suspicion.“Of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead away captive silly women” 2 Timothy 3:6
- To steal in; to move forward unheard and unseen; to come or enter unexpectedly or unobserved; as, some error has crept into the copy of a history.
- To move or behave with servility; to fawn.
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.