# שֶׁרֶץ (sherets)

Israeli respelling: she-rets. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8318. 15 Old Testament occurrences.

a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals

King James renderings: creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sherets-h8318

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/20) — And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open f…
- [Genesis 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/7/21) — And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the…
- [Leviticus 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/2) — Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclea…
- [Leviticus 11:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/10) — And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in t…
- [Leviticus 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/20) — All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
- [Leviticus 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/21) — Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the ear…
- [Leviticus 11:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/23) — But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
- [Leviticus 11:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/29) — These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after…
- [Leviticus 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/31) — These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
- [Leviticus 11:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/41) — And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
- [Leviticus 11:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/42) — Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon…
- [Leviticus 11:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/43) — Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye…
- [Leviticus 11:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/44) — For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves…
- [Leviticus 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/5) — Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness…
- [Deuteronomy 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/19) — And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.