Swarm
שֶׁ֫רֶץStrong’s H8318sherets (she-rets)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sherets is the Hebrew word usually translated “swarming thing”, “swarming thing of” and “among the swarming thing”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.”
Meaning
- Teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmersof insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds
How it's translated
- swarming thing 8
- swarming thing of 5
- a swarming thing 1
- among the swarming thing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 12
- Genesis 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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:
- Leviticus 5:2Or 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, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
- Leviticus 11:10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
- Leviticus 11:20All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
- Leviticus 11:21Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
- Leviticus 11:23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫רֶץ sherets · swarm
1) teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers 1a) of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “swarm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWARM, noun
sworm. [Latin ferveo, and boiling is very expressive of the motions of a swarm of bees. See the Verb.]
- In a general sense, a large number or body of small animals or insects, particularly when in motion; but appropriately, a great number of honey bees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; or a like body of bees united and settled permanently in a hive. Exodus 8:24Judges 14:8
- A swarm or multitude; particularly, a multitude of people in motion.
All definitions and other forms of “swarm”
SWARM, verb intransitive
sworm.
- To collect and depart from a hive by flight in a body, as bees.
- To appear or collect in a crowd; to run; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
- To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of animals in motion.
- To breed multitudes.
- To climb, as a tree, by embracing it with the arms and legs, and scrambling.
SWARM, verb transitive
To crowd or throng. [Not in use.]
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.