שֶׁרֶץsherets/sheh'-rets/
HebrewH831815 occurrences (KJV)
a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals
KJV renders it: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).
Where it appears
- Gen 1:20God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- Gen 7:21All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
- Lev 5:2“‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.
- Lev 11:10All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
- Lev 11:20“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.
- Lev 11:21Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.
- Lev 11:23But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.
- Lev 11:29“‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
- Lev 11:31These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.
- Lev 11:41“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
- Lev 11:42Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
- Lev 11:43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.
- Lev 11:44For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
- Lev 22:5or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;
- Deut 14:19All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.