Genesis 1:21
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.
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Ezekiel 47:9
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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רָמַשׂ
râmas · raw-mas'
5 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm
Strong's KJV usage: creep, move.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 1:21Strong's last: Psalms 69:34
Open full H7430 profile →הָלַךְ
hâlak · haw-lak'
1 times translated as this KJV form497 total Strong's occurrences
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, be eased, enter, exercise (self), follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, × more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), send, speedily, spread, still, surely, tale-bearer, travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, × be weak, whirl.
Strong's first: Proverbs 23:31Strong's last: Proverbs 23:31
Open full H1980 profile →חָפֵץ
châphêts · khaw-fates'
1 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
Strong's KJV usage: × any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 40:17Strong's last: Job 40:17
Open full H2654 profile →שָׁרַץ
shârats · shaw-rats'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to wriggle, i.e. (by implication) swarm or abound
Strong's KJV usage: breed (bring forth, increase) abundantly (in abundance), creep, move.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 47:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:9
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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.
H7430
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.
H7430
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.
H7430
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:
H2654
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
H7430
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
H1980
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
H8317
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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move
MOVE, verb transitive moov. [Latin moveo.]
1. To impel; to carry, convey or draw from one place to another; to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means. The wind moves a ship; the cartman moves goods; the horse moves a cart or carriage. Mere matter cannot move itself. Machines are moved by springs, weights, or force applied.
2. To excite into action; to affect; to agitate; to rouse; as, to move the passions.
3. To cause to act or determine; as, to move the will.
4. To persuade; to prevail on; to excite from a state of rest or indifference.
Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
But when no female arts his mind could move
She turn'd to furious hate her impious love.
5. To excite tenderness, pity or grief in the heart; to affect; to touch pathetically; to excite feeling in.
The use of images in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.
When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them--Matthew 9:36.
6. To make angry; to provoke; to irritate.
7. To excite tumult or commotion.
When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them. Ruth 1:19. Matthew 21:10.
8. To influence or incite by secret agency.
God moved them to depart from him. 2 Chronicles 18:31. 2 Peter 1:21.
9. To shake; to agitate.
The kingdoms were moved. Psalms 46:5. Jeremiah 49:21.
10. To propose; to offer for consideration and determination; as, to move a resolution in a deliberative assembly.
11. To propose; to recommend.
They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.
12. To prompt; to incite; to instigate. Acts 17:28.
MOVE, verb intransitive To change place or posture; to stir; to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part of space to another. The planets move in their orbits; the earth moves on its axis; a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning; animals move by creeping, swimming or flying.
On the green bank I sat and listened long,
Nor till her lay was ended could I move
1. To have action.
In him we live, and move and have our being. Acts 17:28.
2. To have the power of action.
Every moving thing that liveth, shall be meat for you.
Genesis 9:1.
3. To walk.
He moves with manly grace.
4. To march. The army moved and took a position behind a wood.
5. To tremble; to shake.
The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Psalms 18:7.
6. To change residence. Men move with their families from one house, town or state to another.
MOVE, noun The act of moving; the act of transferring from place to place, as in chess.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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