Strong's #8317: sharats (pronounced shaw-rats')

a primitive root; to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound:--breed (bring forth, increase) abundantly (in abundance), creep, move.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shârats

1) (Qal) to teem, swarm, multiply

1a) to swarm, teem

1b2) to swarm

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

 

Genesis 1:20: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl"
Genesis 1:21: "that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl"
Genesis 7:21: "and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:"
Genesis 8:17: "creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply"
Genesis 9:7: "And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply"
Exodus 1:7: "And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty;"
Exodus 8:3: "And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber,"
Leviticus 11:29: "These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse,"
Leviticus 11:41: "And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten."
Leviticus 11:42: "feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat;"
Leviticus 11:43: "make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean"
Leviticus 11:46: "in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:"
Psalms 105:30: "Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings."
Ezekiel 47:9: "thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever"