שֶׁרֶץ sherets

Hebrew · Strong's H8318 · pronounced sheh'-rets · used 15 times in 15 verses

Meaning

a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals

In the King James Version: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).

Derivation: from H8317 (שָׁרַץ);

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Where it is used

Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 7:21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
Leviticus 5:2 Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.
Leviticus 11:10 But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
Leviticus 11:20 All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:21 However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
Leviticus 11:23 All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:29 The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
Leviticus 11:31 These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:41 Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.
Leviticus 11:42 Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.
Leviticus 11:43 Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
Leviticus 11:44 For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
Leviticus 22:5 or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—
Deuteronomy 14:19 All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.