7430. ramas
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ramas: to creep, move lightly, move about
Original Word: רָמַשׂ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ramas
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-mas')
Short Definition: creeps

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to creep, move lightly, move about
NASB Translation
creep (1), creeps (7), moved (1), moves (6), prowl about (1), swarm (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
רָמַשׂ verb creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic touch Gently (Kam Frey); Late Hebrew רְמָשִׂים creeping things (rare)); —

Qal Imperfect3feminine singular תִּרָמשֹׁ Genesis 9:2 2t.; Participle רֹמֵשׂ Genesis 1:26 +; feminine singular רֹמֶ֫שֶׂת Leviticus 11:46 2t.; — 1

subject ground, הָאֲדָמָה ׳כֹּל אֲשֶׁר ת all with which the ground creeps (teems), i.e. all creeping things, Leviticus 20:55 (H), Genesis 9:2 (P).

2 elsewhere subject animal:

a. creep, עַלהָֿאֲדָמָה Deuteronomy 4:18; Genesis 7:8 (P), עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Leviticus 11:44 (H), Genesis 1:30 (P); הָרֶמֶשׂ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַלהָֿאֲדָמָה Ezekiel 38:20, עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Genesis 1:26; Genesis 7:14; Genesis 8:17 (all P).

b. move lightly, glide about, of water animals, כָּלנֶֿפֶשׂ (בַּמַּיִם) הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶצֶת Leviticus 11:46 (H), Genesis 1:21 (P), compare Psalm 69:35.

c. in General move about, of all land-animals, עַלהָֿאָרֶץ Genesis 1:28; Genesis 7:21; Genesis 8:19 (all P); specifically of wild beasts prowling at night Psalm 104:20.



Strong's
creep, move

A primitive root; properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. To crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm -- creep, move.

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