בְּהֵמָהbᵉhêmâh

beast, animal, cattle, beast, & collective beasts

Pronunciation: be-hay-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H929

Meanings

1. of living creatures other than man (Genesis 8:1; Exodus 8:13; Exodus 8:14)

2. opposed also to wild beasts (Genesis 1:24; Genesis 1:25; Genesis 1:26)

3. rarely of wild beasts, especially carnivora (Micah 5:7; Deuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 18:6)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 190 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 2:20 He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
  • Genesis 3:14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
  • 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.”
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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).