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title: רָמַשׂ — creep · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רָמַשׂ (7430), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: creep. BDB 1906: vb. creep, move lightly, move about. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רָמַשׂ

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«רָמַשׂ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **creep** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 7430 · **BDB:** רָמַשׂ

### Glosses

creeps (7); creeping.\[thing\] (3); it.creeps (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

creep [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7430/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. creep, move lightly, move about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7430/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic رَمَشَ touch gently (Kam Frey); NH רְמָשִׂים creeping things (rare));— Impf. 3 fs. תִּרְמֹשׂ Gn 9:2 + 2 times; Pt. רֹמֵשׂ 1:26 +; fs. רֹמֶ֫שֶׂת Lv 11:46 + 2 times;— subj. ground, כֹּל אֲשֶׁר ת׳ הָאֲדָמָה all with which the ground creeps (teems), i.e. all creeping things, Lv 20:25 (H), Gn 9:2 (P). elsewhere subj. animal: creep, עַל־הָאֲדָמָה Dt 4:18; Gn 7:8 (P), עַל־הָאָרֶץ Lv 11:44 (H), Gn 1:30 (P); הָרֶמֶשׂ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל־הָאֲדָמָה Ez 38:20, עַל־הָאָרֶין Gn 1:26; 7:14; 8:17 (all P). move lightly, glide about, of water animals, כָּל־נֶפֶשׁ (בַּמַּיִם) הַחַיָּה הָרֹמֶשֶׂת Lv 11:46 (H), Gn 1:21 (P), cf. ψ 69:35. in gen. move about, of all land-animals, עַל־הָאָרֶין Gn 1:28; 7:21; 8:19 (all P); specif. of wild beasts prowling at night ψ 104:20.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רָמַשׂ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7430/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 69:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.35/)

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יְֽ֭הַלְלוּהוּ שָׁמַ֣יִם וָאָ֑רֶץ יַ֝מִּ֗ים וְֽכָל־רֹמֵ֥שׂ בָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* may they.praise.him heaven and earth \[the\].seas and every \[thing.which\].moves in them

*JPS 1917:* Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

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[Psalms 104:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.20/)

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תָּֽשֶׁת־חֹ֭שֶׁךְ וִ֣יהִי לָ֑יְלָה בּֽוֹ־תִ֝רְמֹ֗שׂ כָּל־חַיְתוֹ־יָֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* you.make darkness and it.is night in it it.moves.about every animal his of.\[the\].forest

*JPS 1917:* Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

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