שָׁרַץ shârats — to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound
Translated in the KJV as breed (bring forth, increase) abundantly, creep, move.
a primitive root; to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound.
shârats in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperative 1Wayyiqtol 1
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:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›