Creeping Thing

CREEPING THING

krep'-ing (remes, sherets; herpeton): Remes and sherets, with the root verbs ramas and sharats, are used without any sharp distinction for insects and other small creatures. Ramas means clearly "to creep," and is used even of the beasts of the forest (Psalm 104:20), while sharats is rather "to swarm." But in at least one passage (Leviticus 11:44), we have the noun, sherets, with the verb ramas; "with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth." The principal passages where these words occur are the accounts of the Creation and the Flood and the references to unclean animals in Leviticus and in the vision of Peter. In the last we have the word herpeton as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew words (Acts 10:12). Winged creeping things (sherets ha-`oph, Leviticus 11:20), as well as the wingless, are unclean, but an exception is made in favor of the locusts, "which have legs above their feet, where-with to leap upon the earth."

See INSECTS; LOCUST.

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2062. herpeton -- a creeping thing
... a creeping thing. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: herpeton Phonetic
Spelling: (her-pet-on') Short Definition: a creeping creature, reptile ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2062.htm - 6k7431. remes -- creeping things, moving things
... Origin from ramas Definition creeping things, moving things NASB Word Usage creeping
thing (5), creeping things (9), creeps (1), moving thing (1), swarms (1). ...
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8318. sherets -- swarmers, swarming things
... creeping thing, moving creature. From sharats; a swarm, ie Active mass of minute
animals -- creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature). see HEBREW sharats. ...
/hebrew/8318.htm - 6k

The Six Days' Work Described.
... And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle,
and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xi the six days work.htm

'Clear Shining after Rain'
... Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of
fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/clear shining after rain.htm

But I Maintain That, if He had the Patience to Use his Own ...
... heaven after its kind; and after these, to the wild beasts of the earth after their
kind, and the beasts after their kind, and to every creeping thing upon the ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lv but i maintain.htm

After This, Wishing to Prove that There is no Difference Between ...
... one of the creatures that are upon the earth, or a likeness of any winged fowl that
flieth under the heaven, or a likeness of any creeping thing that creepeth ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxxi after this wishing.htm

Wide and Narrow Sense of the Word "Spirit. "
... the Scripture testifies, "All flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 37 xxiii wide and narrow.htm

This Conclusion Confirmed by the Usage of Holy Scripture in Its ...
... after their kind." [6339] Again afterwards: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beasts ...
/.../tertullian/against hermogenes/chapter xxii this conclusion confirmed by.htm

The Song of the Three Children
... this old hymn means nothing; it is in their eyes merely an old-fashioned figure
of speech to call on sun and stars, green herb and creeping thing, to praise ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the good news of god/sermon iv the song of.htm

The vision of Creation
... have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the vision of creation.htm

John iii. 6
... have life" ( Genesis 1:20 , LXX.); but from the time that the Lord entered the streams
of Jordan, the water no longer gives forth the "creeping thing that hath ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily xxvi john iii 6.htm

But that He Judgeth all Things, this Answers to his Having ...
... the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all cattle and wild
beasts, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter xxiii but that he.htm

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