Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to swarm
Usage: 1) (Qal) to teem, swarm, multiply 1a) to swarm, teem 1b2) to swarm
Sharats means “creep” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8317 שָׁרַץ (sharats) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sharats (shaw-rats') v. 1. to wriggle 2. (by implication) swarm or abound It has 14 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include creep, creeping, let, they, and abundantly. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sharats (shaw-rats') v. 1. to wriggle 2. (by implication) swarm or abound [a primitive root] KJV: breed (bring forth, increase) abundantly (in abundance), creep, move.
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to swarm
Usage: 1) (Qal) to teem, swarm, multiply 1a) to swarm, teem 1b2) to swarm
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sharats, 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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14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 firmament of heaven.
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 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:
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8317.
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 firmament of heaven.
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 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.
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
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 his kind,
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
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:
Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
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Sharats (Strong's H8317) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "creep". sharats (shaw-rats') v. 1. to wriggle 2. (by implication) swarm or abound
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H8317 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8317 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as creep, creeping, let, they, abundantly, and bring. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.