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

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2 Kings 3:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’
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2 Chronicles 32:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He also made storehouses for the harvest of grain and new wine and oil, stalls for all kinds of livestock, and pens for the flocks.
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Ezra 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”
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Ezra 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.
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Nehemiah 2:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
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Nehemiah 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
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Nehemiah 9:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
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Nehemiah 10:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God.
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Source alternate reference: 10.37
Job 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
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Job 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
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Job 35:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
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Psalms 8:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
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Source alternate reference: 8.8
Psalms 36:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
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Source alternate reference: 36.7
Psalms 49:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
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Source alternate reference: 49.13
Psalms 49:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
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Source alternate reference: 49.21
Psalms 50:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
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Psalms 73:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
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Psalms 104:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
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Psalms 107:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
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Psalms 135:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.
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Psalms 147:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
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Psalms 148:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,
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Proverbs 12:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.
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Proverbs 30:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything;
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Ecclesiastes 3:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
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Ecclesiastes 3:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
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Ecclesiastes 3:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
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Isaiah 18:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
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Isaiah 30:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
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Isaiah 46:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
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Isaiah 63:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.
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Jeremiah 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
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Jeremiah 7:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
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Jeremiah 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
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Source alternate reference: 9.9
Jeremiah 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
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Jeremiah 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
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Jeremiah 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
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Jeremiah 19:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 21:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’
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Jeremiah 27:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
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Jeremiah 31:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.
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Jeremiah 32:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
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Jeremiah 33:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
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Jeremiah 33:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
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Jeremiah 34:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 36:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’
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Jeremiah 50:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
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Jeremiah 51:62 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
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Ezekiel 8:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
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Ezekiel 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
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