רָמַשׂrâmas
creep, move lightly, move about
Pronunciation: raw-mas' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7430
Meanings
Qal
1. subject ground (Leviticus 20:55; Genesis 9:2)
2. elsewhere subject animal
a. creep (Deuteronomy 4:18; Genesis 7:8; Leviticus 11:44)
b. move lightly, glide about, of water animals (Leviticus 11:46; Genesis 1:21; Psalms 69:35)
c. in general move about, of all land-animals (Genesis 1:28; Genesis 7:21; Genesis 8:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
- Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
- Genesis 1:30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
- Genesis 7:8 With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
- Genesis 7:14 With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).