be.he.mah H929

בְּהֵמָה (be.he.mah) means “animal” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

בְּהֵמָה Hebrew · H929 190 tagged occurrences in 172 verses

Pronunciation guide: be-hay-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0929

בְּהֵמָה · be.he.mah · animal

1) beast, cattle, animal 1a) beasts (coll of all animals) 1b) cattle, livestock (of domestic animals) 1c) wild beasts

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)

KJV glosses: beast, cattle.

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How translators render H929

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
and beast	21
beast	15
animal	14
livestock	10
animals	9
and livestock	6
or beast	6
the beasts	6
the livestock	6
an animal	5
of your livestock	5
and the beasts	4
the animals	4
the cattle	4
the animal	3
and animals	2
and beasts	2
and our livestock	2
beasts	2
cattle	2
of livestock	2
of the livestock	2
or animal	2
or livestock	2
a brute beast	1
against the beasts	1
among beasts	1
among the beasts	1
among the livestock	1
and animal	1
and beasts of	1
and cattle	1
and for your livestock	1
and the livestock	1
and to the beasts	1
and your animals	1
animals become ours	1
any livestock	1
are but beasts	1
are the animals	1
as cattle	1
by any animal	1
cattle as well	1
for another	1
for our livestock	1
for the animal	1
for the animals	1
for the livestock	1
for their herds	1
for your livestock	1
her cattle	1
his other animals	1
including the animals	1
let their herds	1
like cattle	1
more than the beasts	1
o beasts	1
of an animal	1
of animals	1
of beast	1
of his animal	1
of the animal	1
of their livestock	1
of wild beasts	1
one animal	1
other animal	1
our animals	1
over the livestock	1
regarding animals	1
the wild animals	1
their herds	1
was the one	1
with an animal	1
your livestock	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
and beast	20
beast	9
a beast	5
and upon beast	5
beasts	5
and the cattle	4
of beasts	4
of thy cattle	4
the beasts	4
among the beasts	3
and cattle	3
and for the beasts	3
and of beast	3
and of beasts	3
and of cattle	3
and the beast	3
and to the beasts	3
and without beast	3
cattle	3
of beast	3
of the beasts	3
or beast	3
the beast	3
and all the cattle	2
and every beast	2
and with beasts	2
for beast	2
nor beast	2
of cattle	2
of the beast	2
of the cattle	2
only the cattle	2
with a beast	2
above a beast	1
above all cattle	1
also all the beasts	1
also of beasts	1
among all the beasts	1
among beasts	1
among the cattle	1
among you or among your cattle	1
and all cattle	1
and all his beasts	1
and all our cattle	1
and for the cattle	1
and for thy cattle	1
and if any beast	1
and in beast	1
and of all the beasts	1
and of our cattle	1
and over our cattle	1
and over the cattle	1
and the beasts	1
and unto the beasts	1
and upon cattle	1
and upon the cattle	1
and your beasts	1
as a beast	1
as beasts	1
but all the cattle	1
by beast	1
for all manner of beasts	1
for the beast	1
for the cattle	1
for thy cattle	1
how do the beasts	1
instead of their cattle	1
nor any of thy cattle	1
nor thy cattle	1
not all the beasts	1
not their cattle	1
now the beasts	1
of a beast	1
of all manner of beasts	1
of all their cattle	1
of any beast	1
of every beast	1
of his beast	1
of them shall be for their cattle	1
or any beast	1
or beasts	1
or of beast	1
the cattle	1
themselves are beasts	1
therein and the cattle	1
therein the beasts	1
thereof and the cattle	1
thereof for our cattle	1
thou shalt not let thy cattle	1
to all cattle	1
to the beast	1
unto any beast	1
upon them and all the beasts	1
us more than the beasts	1
with any beast	1
with any manner of beast	1
with me save the beast	1
ye beasts	1
yea and the beasts	1
your cattle	1

Verses containing H929

Page 2 of 4. 172 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Leviticus 20:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
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Leviticus 20:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
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Leviticus 24:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
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Leviticus 24:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
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Leviticus 25:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
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Leviticus 26:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
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Leviticus 27:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.
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Leviticus 27:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
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Leviticus 27:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
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Leviticus 27:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
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Leviticus 27:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
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Leviticus 27:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
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Numbers 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for all the firstborn are Mine. On the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They are Mine; I am the LORD.”
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Numbers 3:41 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You are to take the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”
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Numbers 3:45 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites belong to Me; I am the LORD.
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Numbers 8:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For every firstborn male in Israel is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.
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Numbers 18:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
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Numbers 31:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
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Numbers 31:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.
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Numbers 31:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.
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Numbers 31:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
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Numbers 31:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
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Numbers 32:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
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Numbers 35:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
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Deuteronomy 2:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
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Deuteronomy 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
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Deuteronomy 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
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Deuteronomy 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
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Deuteronomy 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
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Deuteronomy 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
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Deuteronomy 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.
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Source alternate reference: 13.16
Deuteronomy 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
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Deuteronomy 14:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
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Deuteronomy 20:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
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Deuteronomy 27:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
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Deuteronomy 28:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
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Deuteronomy 28:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
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Deuteronomy 28:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
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Deuteronomy 28:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
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Deuteronomy 30:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
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Deuteronomy 32:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
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Joshua 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
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Joshua 8:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
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Joshua 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.
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Joshua 21:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”
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Judges 20:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
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1 Samuel 17:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
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1 Kings 4:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
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Source alternate reference: 5.13
1 Kings 18:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
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2 Kings 3:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.
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