Behemah בְּהֵמָה

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Behemah
בְּהֵמָה
Transliterationbehemah
Strong's numberH929
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossanimal
Occurrences190 in 172 verses
Most frequent inLeviticus (25)

Behemah (Hebrew בְּהֵמָה, Strong's H929) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “animal”. It occurs 190 times in 172 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) beast, cattle, animal
1a) beasts (coll of all animals)
1b) cattle, livestock (of domestic animals)
1c) wild beasts

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVbeast (83), cattle (53), beasts (52)
BSBbeast (43), livestock (30), animal (29), animals (18), beasts (16), cattle (8), your livestock (8), our livestock (3), their herds (2), over the livestock (1), among the livestock (1), other animal (1), and 25 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Behemah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Joel

Jonah

Micah

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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