Crawl
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. i.) To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

2. (v. i.) to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.

3. (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

4. (v. i.) To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.

5. (n.) The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

6. (n.) A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

Greek
2062. herpeton -- a creeping thing
... Word Origin from herpo (to crawl) Definition a creeping thing NASB Word Usage
crawling creatures (3), reptiles (1). creeping thing, serpent. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2062.htm - 6k
Strong's Hebrew
2119. zachal -- to shrink back, crawl away
... zachal. 2119a . to shrink back, crawl away. Transliteration: zachal Phonetic Spelling:
(zaw-khal') Short Definition: afraid. be afraid, serpent, worm ...
/hebrew/2119.htm - 5k

2119a. zachal -- to shrink back, crawl away
... 2119, 2119a. zachal. 2119b . to shrink back, crawl away. Transliteration:
zachal Short Definition: things. Word Origin a prim. root ...
/hebrew/2119a.htm - 5k

7430. ramas -- to creep, move lightly, move about
... creep, move. A primitive root; properly, to glide swiftly, ie To crawl or move with
short steps; by analogy to swarm -- creep, move. 7429, 7430. ramas. 7431 ...
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Library

The Highway of Holiness
... At the foot of the Cross is a low door, so low that to get through it one has to
stoop and crawl through. It is the only entrance to the Highway. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter 4 the highway of.htm

Prolonged Agony
... yielded themselves slaves to envy leap and bound upon their errands like steeds
at the crack of a whip, while at the trumpet-call of duty men crawl like snails ...
/.../chapter l prolonged agony.htm

Survival of the Fittest
... and caverns and shadows of the earth, the bones gather, and the clay-heaps heave,
rattling and adhering into half-kneaded anatomies, that crawl and startle ...
/.../berkhof/new evangelism and other papers/survival of the fittest.htm

To CG Masterman, MP
... England. You are the only man alive who can make the map of England crawl
with life; a most creepy and enviable accomplishment. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/to c f g masterman.htm

Concerning "Good," "Light," "Beautiful," "Desire," "Ecstasy ...
... same is true, if it must needs be said, concerning even the irrational souls, or
living creatures, which cleave the air, or tread the earth, or crawl upon the ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter iv concerning good light.htm

The Folly of this Heresy it Dissects and Mutilates the Deity. ...
... down in the ground; let him worm himself into secret holes; let him unroll his length
through his sinuous joints; [6643] let him tortuously crawl, though not ...
/.../tertullian/against the valentinians/chapter iii the folly of this.htm

Further Diplomacy
... She began to speak in a whisper that hissed as though she breathed through her words.
Masanath felt her flesh crawl and her soft hair take on life. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxvi further diplomacy.htm

Spiritual Resurrection
... be a carnival for worms; that in and out of these places, where my eyes are glistening,
foul things, the offspring of loathsomeness, shall crawl; that this ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/spiritual resurrection.htm

Of Certain Temptations of Satan. Instructions Relating Thereto.
... be very reserved, controlled by the discretion and authority of a director; but
we must take care that he be one who does not teach us to crawl like toads, nor ...
/.../teresa/the life of st teresa of jesus/chapter xiii of certain temptations.htm

The Great Debt She Owed to Our Lord for his Mercy to Her. She ...
... though getting better, for about three years. I praised God when I began
to crawl on my hands and knees. I bore all this with great ...
/.../teresa/the life of st teresa of jesus/chapter vi the great debt.htm

Thesaurus
Crawl (5 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding
fish. Multi-Version Concordance Crawl (5 Occurrences). ...
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Creep (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm
or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. ...
/c/creep.htm - 10k

Crawling (20 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crawl. Multi-Version Concordance
Crawling (20 Occurrences). Acts 10:12 in which were ...
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Cravings (17 Occurrences)

/c/cravings.htm - 11k

Worm (22 Occurrences)
... (4) zochalim (Micah 7:17, the King James Version "worms," the Revised Version (British
and American) "crawling things"), from zachal, "to crawl." (5) skolex ...
/w/worm.htm - 21k

Field-mouse (1 Occurrence)
... Leviticus 11:29 And these shall be unclean unto you among the crawling things which
crawl on the earth: the mole, and the field-mouse, and the lizard, after ...
/f/field-mouse.htm - 6k

Toucheth (45 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 11:31 These shall be unclean unto you among all that crawl: whoever toucheth
them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even. (DBY). ...
/t/toucheth.htm - 20k

Expire (14 Occurrences)
... Genesis 7:21 And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle,
and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all ...
/e/expire.htm - 10k

Expired (29 Occurrences)
... Genesis 7:21 And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle,
and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all ...
/e/expired.htm - 15k

Crawleth (5 Occurrences)

/c/crawleth.htm - 8k

Resources
Was Satan the serpent in Genesis chapter 3? | GotQuestions.org

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Concordance
Crawl (5 Occurrences)

Genesis 3:14
Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
(See NIV)

Genesis 7:21
And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:
(Root in DBY)

Leviticus 11:29
And these shall be unclean unto you among the crawling things which crawl on the earth: the mole, and the field-mouse, and the lizard, after its kind;
(Root in DBY)

Leviticus 11:31
These shall be unclean unto you among all that crawl: whoever toucheth them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
(DBY)

Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Crawl

Related Terms

Creep (8 Occurrences)

Crawling (20 Occurrences)

Cravings (17 Occurrences)

Worm (22 Occurrences)

Field-mouse (1 Occurrence)

Toucheth (45 Occurrences)

Expire (14 Occurrences)

Expired (29 Occurrences)

Crawleth (5 Occurrences)

Scarlet-worm

Snake (43 Occurrences)

Scarletworm

Mole (2 Occurrences)

Mankind (80 Occurrences)

Cravings
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