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:
Deuteronomy 28:51: "And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed:"
Deuteronomy 30:9: "in the fruit and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for"
Deuteronomy 32:24: "destruction: I will also send of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust."
Joshua 8:2: "and her king: the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city"
Joshua 8:27: "Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey"
Joshua 11:14: "the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel unto themselves; but"
Joshua 21:2: "us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle."
Judges 20:48: "as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also"
1 Samuel 17:44: "thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field."
1 Kings 4:33: "of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things,"
1 Kings 18:5: "to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. all the beasts."
2 Kings 3:9: "no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed"
2 Kings 3:17: "that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts."
2 Chronicles 32:28: "and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks."
2 Chronicles 32:28: "and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks."
Ezra 1:4: "help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house"
Ezra 1:6: "of silver, with gold, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all"
Nehemiah 2:12: "to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast"
Nehemiah 2:12: "was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode"
Nehemiah 2:14: "pool: place for the beast that was under me to pass."
Nehemiah 9:37: "over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress."
Nehemiah 10:36: "Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds"
Job 12:7: "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air,"
Job 18:3: "Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?"
Job 35:11: "Who teacheth us more than the beasts us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?"
Psalms 8:7: "sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;"
Psalms 36:6: "O LORD, man and beast."
Psalms 49:12: "abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish."
Psalms 49:20: "and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish."
Psalms 50:10: "every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills."
Psalms 73:22: "was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before"
Psalms 104:14: "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth"
Psalms 107:38: "them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease."
Psalms 135:8: "the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast."
Psalms 147:9: "He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry."
Psalms 148:10: "Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:"
Proverbs 12:10: "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."
Proverbs 30:30: "A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;"
Ecclesiastes 3:18: "them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts."
Ecclesiastes 3:19: "the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing them: as the one dieth,"
Ecclesiastes 3:19: "hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 3:21: "goeth upward, of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"
Isaiah 18:6: "together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls upon"
Isaiah 18:6: "upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon"
Isaiah 30:6: "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from"
Isaiah 46:1: "their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden to the weary"
Isaiah 63:14: " As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so"
Jeremiah 7:20: "upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon"
Jeremiah 7:33: "meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away."
Jeremiah 9:10: "can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled;"
