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Genesis 1:24

וַ יֹּאמֶר אֶלֹהִים תֹּוצֵא הָ אָרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה לְ מִינָהּ בְּהֵמָה וָ רֶמֶשׂ וְ חַיְתֹו אֶרֶץ לְ מִינָהּ וַ יְהִי כֵן

And elohim is saying, the Earth is causing to go out a breath of a living-one to-from-herself, a behemah,41 and a crawling-one and his living-one42 of the earth to-from-herself, and he is becoming an upright.


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Behemah - Masculine Angelic Beings at the End - Shut behind a door

Strong’s #929, behemah. Interpreted as quadrupeds, or “beasts”. The root baham means to shut, or be shut (cf. Gesenius Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon). Gesenius thought this refered to the mouth being shut. But scripture defines what this is elsewhere. The lion is defined as a behemah in Prov. 30:30 and tamed, working animals are also defined as behemah in Exodus 20:10. Consider how James described that “All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the Sea are being tamed [obedience and restraint, Greek #1150] and have been tamed by adam[man]” in James 3:7.

The most telling is the behemot desribed in Job 40, which is this word behemah in the feminine plural. The behemoths are described there in detail as having masculine power, strength of muscle in his body (the word beten there means "body" not merely "belly"):

"he delights his curtailed one [the circumcised one] like the firm one of sinews; his fearsome-pair are knit. His bones are channels of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron. Himself is the [feminine] head of the roads of El, the one who makes him draws his sword near." (Job 40:18-19 RBT)