בְּהֵמָה bᵉhêmâh

Meaning

properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)

In the King James Version: beast, cattle.

Derivation: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute);

Where it is used

• Leviticus 27:27 But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
• Leviticus 27:28 Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
• Numbers 3:13 for all the firstborn are Mine. On the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They are Mine; I am the LORD.”
• Numbers 3:41 You are to take the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”
• Numbers 3:45 “Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites belong to Me; I am the LORD.
• Numbers 8:17 For every firstborn male in Israel is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.
• Numbers 18:15 The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
• Numbers 31:9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
• Numbers 31:11 and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.
• Numbers 31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.
• Numbers 31:30 From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
• Numbers 31:47 From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
• Numbers 32:26 Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
• Numbers 35:3 The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
• Deuteronomy 2:35 We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
• Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
• Deuteronomy 4:17 of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
• Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
• Deuteronomy 7:14 You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
• Deuteronomy 11:15 And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
• Deuteronomy 13:15 you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.
• Deuteronomy 14:4 These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
• Deuteronomy 14:6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
• Deuteronomy 20:14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
• Deuteronomy 27:21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Deuteronomy 28:4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
• Deuteronomy 28:11 The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
• Deuteronomy 28:26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
• Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
• Deuteronomy 30:9 So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
• Deuteronomy 32:24 They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
• Joshua 8:2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
• Joshua 8:27 Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
• Joshua 11:14 The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.
• Joshua 21:2 at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”
• Judges 20:48 And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
• 1 Samuel 17:44 “Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
• 1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
• 1 Kings 18:5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
• 2 Kings 3:9 So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.
• 2 Kings 3:17 For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’
• 2 Chronicles 32:28 He also made storehouses for the harvest of grain and new wine and oil, stalls for all kinds of livestock, and pens for the flocks.
• Ezra 1:4 And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”
• Ezra 1:6 And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.
• Nehemiah 2:12 I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
• Nehemiah 2:14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
• Nehemiah 9:37 Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
• Nehemiah 10:36 And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
• Job 12:7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
• Job 18:3 Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
• Job 35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
• Psalms 8:7 all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
• Psalms 36:6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
• Psalms 49:12 But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
• Psalms 49:20 A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
• Psalms 50:10 for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
• Psalms 73:22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
• Psalms 104:14 He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
• Psalms 107:38 He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
• Psalms 135:8 He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.