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STRONGS NUMBER H929
Transliteration: behemah
Phonetic Spelling: (be-hay-maw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a beast, animal, cattle
Meaning: a dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal
Word Summary
behemah: a beast, animal, cattle
Original Word: בְּהֵמָהTransliteration: behemah
Phonetic Spelling: (be-hay-maw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a beast, animal, cattle
Meaning: a dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal
Strong's Concordance
beast, cattle From an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective) -- beast, cattle.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H929. behemah
בְּהֵמָה187 noun feminine beast, animal, cattle (Arabic ) — ׳בּ Genesis 1:24 137t.; construct בֶּהֱמַת Numbers 3:41 (twice in verse) + 10 t.; suffix בְּהֶמְתְּךָ Leviticus 19:19 4t.; בְּהֶמְתֶּ֑ךָ Exodus 20:10 4t.; בְּהֶמְתּוֺ Genesis 36:6; Proverbs 12:10; plural absolute בְּהֵמוֺת Deuteronomy 32:24 6t. + Psalm 73:22 (see below); construct בַּהֲמוֺת 8:8 5t.; — beast, & collective beasts (Genesis 8:1 + very often)
1 of living creatures other than man (אָדָם) Genesis 8:1; Exodus 8:13; 8:14; 9:9-10, 22; 22:18; Leviticus 18:23 (twice in verse) (where ׳בּ is male, so 20:16) Deuteronomy 27:21; Psalm 36:7 etc.; בּ וְעַד ׳מֵאָדָם (׳בּ including all the larger animals) Exodus 9:25; 12:12; Psalm 135:8; Jeremiah 50:3 etc.; as inferior to man Job 18:3; Psalm 49:13; Psalm 49:21, so also Ecclesiastes 3:18-19, (twice in verse); 3:21; opposed to also birds & reptiles Genesis 6:7; 7:23; 8:17 compare Ezekiel 44:31 etc.; also to fishes 1 Kings 5:13; Job 12:7 compare 12:8, Psalm 8:9; Zephaniah 1:3.
2 opposed to also to wild beasts ׳ח הַשָּׂדֶה הָאָרֶץ, חַיַּת Genesis 1:24-25, 26; 2:20; 3:14; 7:14, 21; 9:10; Psalm 50:10; 148:10; Isaiah 46:1 etc.; especially therefore cattle, as owned and used by man, Genesis 47:18 (הַבּ ׳מִקְנֵה) Exodus 20:10 = Deuteronomy 5:14; Leviticus 19:19; 26:22; Numbers 3:41 (twice in verse); 3:45 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 2:35; 11:15; Jonah 4:11; Zechariah 2:8; 8:10; 14:15; Ezra 1:4, 6; Nehemiah 9:37; 10:37 etc.; in one (late) passage of animal for riding (horse ? mule ?) 2:12 (twice in verse); 2:14.
3 rarely of wild beasts, especially carnivora, ׳בּ יַעַר Micah 5:7; ׳בּ הָאָרֶץ Deuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 18:6 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; ׳בּ הַשָּׂדֶה 1 Samuel 17:44; alone, Proverbs 30:30; שֶׁןבְּֿהֵמוֺת Deuteronomy 32:24; בּ ׳שֹׁד Habakkuk 2:17. — On בְּהֵמוֺת Psalm 73:22 compare below