Strong's #8318: sherets (pronounced sheh'-rets)

from 8317; a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals:--creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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sherets

1) teeming or swarming things, creepers, swarmers

1a) of insects, animals, small reptiles, quadrupeds

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H8317

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Genesis 1:20: "said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly"
Genesis 7:21: "and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every"
Leviticus 5:2: "or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean,"
Leviticus 11:10: "in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any"
Leviticus 11:20: "All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination"
Leviticus 11:21: "may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four,"
Leviticus 11:23: "But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination"
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 11:31: "These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean"
Leviticus 11:41: "And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten."
Leviticus 11:42: "hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not"
Leviticus 11:43: "Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither"
Leviticus 11:44: "yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
Leviticus 22:5: "whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or"
Deuteronomy 14:19: "And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten."