sharats · swarm

What it means

sharats (שָׁרַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “swarm”.

Move in great numbers, multiply until a place is full, like fish or insects.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To teem in great numbers, fill everything.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• swarm ×8
• swarms ×4
• swarmed ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×5
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 1:20

  And Elohim said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the vault of the heavens.”

• Genesis 1:21

  And Elohim created the great sea monsters and every living being that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

• Genesis 7:21

  And all flesh that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, and all human beings.

• Genesis 8:17

  Every animal that is with you, of all flesh, birds and livestock and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, bring out with you, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

• Genesis 9:7

  And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply on it.”

• Exodus 1:7

  But the sons of Israel were fruitful, swarmed, multiplied, and grew strong, very, very much, and the land was filled with them.

• Exodus 8:3

  The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, into the room where you sleep, and onto your bed, into the houses of your servants and among your people, into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

• Leviticus 11:29

  And these shall be unclean for you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel, the mouse, and the lizard according to its kind,

• Leviticus 11:41

  And every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten.

• Leviticus 11:42

  Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or even whatever has many feet, among all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are a detestable thing.

• Leviticus 11:43

  Do not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and do not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean by them.

• Leviticus 11:46

  This is the instruction for the beasts, and the birds, and every living being that moves in the waters, and for every being that swarms on the earth,

• Psalms 105:30

  Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.

• Ezekiel 47:9

  And it will be that every living being that swarms wherever the two torrents go there will live; and there will be very many fish, for this water goes there, and the waters will be healed, and everything will live wherever the torrent goes.