בְּהֵמָה
be.he.mah
“animal”
Definition
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute);
- beast, cattle, animal 1a) beasts (coll of all animals) 1b) cattle, livestock (of domestic animals) 1c) wild beasts
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
בְּהֵמָה appears 158 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.”
No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you;ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
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.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.