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Genesis 1:26

וַ יֹּאמֶר אֶלֹהִים נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּ צַלְמֵנוּ כִּ דְמוּתֵנוּ וְ יִרְדּוּ בִ דְגַת הַ יָּם וּ בְ עֹוף הַ שָּׁמַיִם וּ בַ בְּהֵמָה וּ בְ כָל הָ אָרֶץ וּ בְ כָל הָ רֶמֶשׂ הָ רֹמֵשׂ עַל הָ אָרֶץ

And elohim is saying, we are making a red-one within the shadow-phantom of ourselves,43 according to our figure,44 and they are ruling45 in a fish46 of the Sea, and in a flying-one of the Dual-Heavenly-ones, and in the behemah, and in the whole of the Earth, and in the whole of the Gliding-one the Gliding-one47 upon the Earth.


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Hebrew הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ ha-remes ha-romes. Masculine singular + masculine participle verb with definite articles. The Crawling Crawler. The Law gives a few unidentified variations of a definitive masculine creature “over the Earth” that play on the same words:

  • הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ Crawling Crawler (Gen. 1:26)

  • הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץ Creeping Creeper (Gen. 7:21)

  • הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ הָרֹמֵ֥שׂ Creeping Crawler (Lev. 11:44)