רֶמֶשׂremes
creeping things, moving things
Pronunciation: reh'-mes · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7431
Meanings
1. creeping things (Hosea 2:20; 1 Kings 5:13; Ezekiel 8:10)
2. gliding things, of sea animals (Psalms 104:25)
3. moving things, of all animals (Genesis 9:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what happened.
- Genesis 1:25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce 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 6:7 And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.”
- Genesis 6:20 Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive.
- 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).