Ramas means “move” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7430 רָמַשׂ (ramas) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ramas (raw-mas') v. 1. (properly) to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps 2. by analogy to swarm It has 17 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include creeping, creepeth, creep, and which. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ramas (raw-mas') v. 1. (properly) to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps 2. by analogy to swarm [a primitive root] KJV: creep, move.
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to creep
Usage: 1) to creep, move lightly, move about, walk on all fours 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to creep, teem (of all creeping things) 1a2) to creep (of animals) 1a3) to move lightly, glide about (of water animals) 1a4) to move about (of all land animals generally)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ramas, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7430.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
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 earth, and every man:
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
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 with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
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Ramas (Strong's H7430) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "move". ramas (raw-mas') v. 1. (properly) to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps 2. by analogy to swarm
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H7430 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7430 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as creeping, creepeth, creep, and which. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.