ramas · creep, move

What it means

ramas (רָמַשׂ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “creep, move”.

Move along the ground or glide: creep, crawl. It is said of small land animals and also of those that move in the water.

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 go close to the ground, like reptiles.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• creeps ×10
• moves ×4
• creep about ×1
• creeping thing ×1
• moved ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×10
• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×2
• Ezekiel×1

• 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 1:26

  And Elohim said, “Let us make the human being in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

• Genesis 1:28

  And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.”

• Genesis 1:30

  And to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that creeps on the earth, that has life, I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

• Genesis 7:8

  Of the clean animals and of the animals that are not clean, and of the birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

• Genesis 7:14

  they, and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird, every winged creature.

• 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 8:19

  Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, by their families went out of the ark.

• Genesis 9:2

  And the fear and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are given.

• Leviticus 11:44

  For I am YHWH your Elohim; sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. And do not make yourselves unclean with any swarming thing that creeps on the earth.

• 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,

• Leviticus 20:25

  So you shall separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

• Deuteronomy 4:18

  the representation of any creeping thing on the ground, the representation of any fish that is in the waters below the earth.

• Psalms 69:34

  Let the heavens and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

• Psalms 104:20

  You set darkness, and it is night; in it all the animals of the forest creep about.

• Ezekiel 38:20

  And they will quake before me, the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the animals of the field, and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground, and every human being that is on the face of the ground; and the mountains will be thrown down, and the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the earth.