STRONGS NUMBER H7430


Word Summary
ramas: to creep, move lightly, move about
Original Word: רָמַשׂ
Transliteration: ramas
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-mas')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to creep, move lightly, move about
Meaning: to glide swiftly, to crawl, move with short steps, to swarm
Strong's Concordance
creep, move

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7430. ramas

רָמַשׂverb creep, move lightly, move about (chiefly P) (Arabic touch Gently (Kam Frey); Late Hebrew רְמָשִׂיםcreeping things (rare)); —

Qal Imperfect3feminine singular תִּרָמשֹׁGenesis 9:2 2t.; Participle רֹמֵשׂ1:26 +; feminine singular רֹמֶ֫שֶׂתLeviticus 11:46 2t.; — 1

subject ground, ת אֲשֶׁר ׳כֹּל הָאֲדָמָהall 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, עַלהָֿאֲדָמָהDeuteronomy 4:18; Genesis 7:8 (P), עַלהָֿאָרֶץLeviticus 11:44 (H), Genesis 1:30 (P); עַלהָֿאֲדָמָה הָרֹמֵשׂ הָרֶמֶשׂEzekiel 38:20, עַלהָֿאָרֶץGenesis 1:26; 7:14; 8:17 (all P).

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

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