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:
Jeremiah 12:4: "field wither, of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds;"
Jeremiah 15:3: "to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy."
Jeremiah 16:4: "shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 19:7: "to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 21:6: "of this city, both man and beast: of a great pestilence."
Jeremiah 27:5: "the earth, the man and the beast are upon the ground,"
Jeremiah 31:27: "with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast."
Jeremiah 32:43: "is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans."
Jeremiah 33:10: "without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah,"
Jeremiah 33:10: "without man, and without inhabitant, and without"
Jeremiah 33:12: "without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be"
Jeremiah 34:20: "for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth."
Jeremiah 36:29: "land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?"
Jeremiah 50:3: "dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast."
Jeremiah 51:62: "remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate"
Ezekiel 8:10: "form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel,"
Ezekiel 14:13: "famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from"
Ezekiel 14:17: "through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from"
Ezekiel 14:19: "to cut off from it man and beast:"
Ezekiel 14:21: "to cut off from it man and beast?"
Ezekiel 25:13: "Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman;"
Ezekiel 29:8: "upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of"
Ezekiel 29:11: "shall pass through it, nor foot of beast through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty"
Ezekiel 32:13: "I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters;"
Ezekiel 32:13: "trouble them any more, nor the hooves of beasts trouble"
Ezekiel 36:11: "And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle"
Ezekiel 44:31: "whether or beast."
Joel 1:18: "How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because"
Joel 1:20: " The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers"
Joel 2:22: "Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring,"
Jonah 3:7: "and his nobles, saying, man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste"
Jonah 3:8: "But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto"
Jonah 4:11: "that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
Micah 5:8: "of many people among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep:"
Habakkuk 2:17: "of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, blood,"
Zephaniah 1:3: "I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes"
Haggai 1:11: "and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands."
Zechariah 2:4: "as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:"
Zechariah 8:10: "nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in"
Zechariah 14:15: "of the camel, and of the ass, the beasts that shall be in these tents,"
