Creeping
רֶ֫מֶשׂStrong’s H7431remes (re-me-s)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Remes is the Hebrew word usually translated “creeping thing”, “creeping thing of” and “moving thing”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Creeping things, moving things, creeping organismcreeping things · gliding things (of sea animals) · moving things (of all animals)
How it's translated
- creeping thing 10
- creeping thing of 2
- and creeping thing 1
- the creeping thing 1
- moving thing 1
- and creeping thing of 1
- like creeping thing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 10
- Psalms 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Hosea 1
- Habakkuk 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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 6:7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
- Genesis 6:20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
- 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 7:23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫מֶשׂ remes · creeping
1) creeping things, moving things, creeping organism 1a) creeping things 1b) gliding things (of sea animals) 1c) moving things (of all animals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “creeping” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CREEPING, participle present
tense Moving on the belly, or close to the surface of the earth or other body; moving slowly, secretly, or silently; moving insensibly; stealing along.
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.