שֶׁרֶץ
sherets · sheh'-rets
a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8317 (שָׁרַץ);
a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest › to pursue the straight path
To consume, to destroy of the head, the highest that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֶׁרֶץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- creeping things2 · 13%
- and every creeping thing2 · 13%
- the moving creature1 · 7%
- and of every creeping thing1 · 7%
- of all that move1 · 7%
- that creep1 · 7%
- creeping1 · 7%
- unto you among the creeping things1 · 7%
- to you among all that creep1 · 7%
- among all creeping things1 · 7%
- with any creeping thing1 · 7%
- with any manner of creeping thing1 · 7%
- any creeping thing1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.