remes · creeping thing

What it means

remes (רֶמֶשׂ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “creeping thing”.

S: animals that move along the ground or glide, reptiles and small animals. From the same root as "creep".

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. The small animals that move 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.

• creeping thing ×9
• creeping things ×7
• moving things ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×10
• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 1:24

  And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their kind: livestock and creeping things and animals of the earth according to their kind.” And it was so.

• Genesis 1:25

  And Elohim made the animals of the earth according to their kind, and the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground 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 6:7

  And YHWH said, “I will wipe out the human being whom I have created from the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I made them.”

• Genesis 6:20

  Of the birds according to their kind, and of the livestock according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to be kept alive.

• 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 7:23

  And he wiped out all that existed that was on the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky; and they were wiped out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

• 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 9:3

  Every creeping thing that is alive will be food for you; as the green plants, I give you everything.

• 1 Kings 4:33

  And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that comes out in the wall; and he spoke of the beasts, and of the birds, and of the creeping things, and of the fish.

• Psalms 104:25

  This is the sea, great and wide; there are moving things without number, animals small with great.

• Psalms 148:10

  the animals and all livestock, creeping things and winged birds,

• Ezekiel 8:10

  And I went in and looked, and look, every form of creeping thing and of detestable beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, carved on the wall all around, all around.

• 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.

• Hosea 2:18

  And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground; and bow and sword and war I will break from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety.

• Habakkuk 1:14

  And you make human beings like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them.