CREEPING THINGS
Creeping Things
CREEPING THINGS.In the EV [Note: English Version.] this term is the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of two distinct words, which have no etymological connexion, and in usage are not synonymous. The Hebrew words are remes and sherets. It is unfortunate that the latter term is tr. [Note: translate or translation.] creeping thing, for the root means to swarm. It includes both terrestrial and aquatic animals which appear in great swarms; in Gen 1:20 it refers to the creatures that teem in the waters, while in other passages it includes insects, as locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers (Lev 11:20-23), together with the smaller quadrupeds as the weasel and mouse, as well as reptiles proper (Lev 11:29-31). The verb is used of frogs (Exo 8:3). Etymologically remes signifies that which glides or creeps, and for its usage the two crucial passages are Gen 1:24 and 1Ki 4:33. In the latter the entire animal kingdom is popularly divided into four classes: beasts, birds, creeping things, and fishes (cf. Hos 2:18). In Gen 1:24 the land animals are put into three groups: cattle, creeping things, and beasts of the earth. By eliminating the first and third classes, which respectively include domesticated quadrupeds, and the wild animals, we see that the expression creeping things is, roughly speaking, equivalent to our term reptiles, exclusive of those which are aquatic. Delitzsch defines remes as the smaller creeping animals that keep close to the earth; Dillmann as creatures which move along the ground either without feet or with imperceptible feet. From this discussion it is evident that the two are not interchangeable terms. Remes has also a wider signification: in Psa 104:25 it is used of marine animals, in Gen 9:3 (EV [Note: English Version.] moving thing) it includes all living creatures. See, further, the careful discussion by Professor Driver in Hastings DB [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] i. 517 f.
James A. Kelso.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Creeping Things
A general term for animals
Gen 1:26; Lev 11:20-23; Lev 11:29-31; Lev 11:42; Psa 104:20; Psa 104:25; Rom 1:23
Unclean
Lev 5:2; Lev 11:20; Lev 11:29-44; Deu 14:19
Clean
Lev 11:21-22
Uses of, in idolatrous worship
Eze 8:10
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
CREEPING THINGS
Gen 1:26; Lev 5:2; Lev 11:20; Lev 11:42; Deu 14:19; Psa 104:25; Eze 8:10; Rom 1:23
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