STRONGS NUMBER H929


Word Summary
behemah: a beast, animal, cattle
Original Word: בְּהֵמָה
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
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 ) — ׳בּGenesis 1:24 137t.; construct בֶּהֱמַתNumbers 3:41 (twice in verse) + 10 t.; suffix בְּהֶמְתְּךָLeviticus 19:19 4t.; בְּהֶמְתֶּ֑ךָExodus 20:10 4t.; בְּהֶמְתּוֺGenesis 36:6; Proverbs 12:10; plural absolute בְּהֵמוֺתDeuteronomy 32:24 6t. + Psalm 73:22 (see below); construct בַּהֲמוֺת8:8 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, חַיַּתGenesis 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 יַעַרMicah 5:7; ׳בּ הָאָרֶץDeuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 18:6 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; ׳בּ הַשָּׂדֶה1 Samuel 17:44; alone, Proverbs 30:30; שֶׁןבְּֿהֵמוֺתDeuteronomy 32:24; בּ ׳שֹׁדHabakkuk 2:17. — On בְּהֵמוֺתPsalm 73:22 compare below