Strong's #929: bhemah (pronounced be-hay-maw')
from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):--beast, cattle.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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behêmâh
1) beast, cattle, animal
1a) beasts (collective of all animals)
1b) cattle, livestock (of domestic animals)
1c) wild beasts
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
Usage:
This word is used 190 times:
Leviticus 18:23: "thyself therewith: neither shall any woman before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion."
Leviticus 19:19: "my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle engender with a diverse kind: sow"
Leviticus 20:15: "And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay"
Leviticus 20:15: "lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast."
Leviticus 20:16: "approach unto any beast, and lie down the woman,"
Leviticus 20:16: "the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood"
Leviticus 20:25: "Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean"
Leviticus 20:25: "and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner"
Leviticus 24:18: "And he that killeth a beast a beast shall make it good; beast for beast."
Leviticus 24:21: "And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death."
Leviticus 25:7: " And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be"
Leviticus 26:22: "among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways"
Leviticus 27:9: "And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all"
Leviticus 27:10: "for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange"
Leviticus 27:10: "and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be"
Leviticus 27:11: "And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer"
Leviticus 27:11: "unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:"
Leviticus 27:26: "Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's firstling, no"
Leviticus 27:27: "And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth"
Leviticus 27:28: "unto the LORD that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field"
Numbers 3:13: "in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD."
Numbers 3:41: "among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings"
Numbers 3:41: "instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel."
Numbers 3:45: "the firstborn among the children and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites"
Numbers 3:45: "and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD."
Numbers 8:17: "of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: that I smote every firstborn"
Numbers 18:15: "they bring whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn"
Numbers 18:15: "shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem."
Numbers 31:9: "and their little ones, of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods."
Numbers 31:11: "and all the prey, both of men and of beasts."
Numbers 31:26: "of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief"
Numbers 31:30: "the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites,"
Numbers 31:47: "fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept"
Numbers 32:26: "our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there of Gilead:"
Numbers 35:3: "to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, their beasts."
Deuteronomy 2:35: "Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took."
Deuteronomy 3:7: "But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey"
Deuteronomy 4:17: "The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any"
Deuteronomy 5:14: "nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that"
Deuteronomy 7:14: "there shall not be male among you, or among your cattle."
Deuteronomy 11:15: "And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full."
Deuteronomy 13:15: "of the sword, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword."
Deuteronomy 14:4: "These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,"
Deuteronomy 14:6: "And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two"
Deuteronomy 14:6: "and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat."
Deuteronomy 20:14: "But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is"
Deuteronomy 27:21: "be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people Amen."
Deuteronomy 28:4: "and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep."
Deuteronomy 28:11: "in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, of thy ground, in the land"
Deuteronomy 28:26: "unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts and no man shall frighten them away."
