she.rets denotes a collective class of creatures described as moving or swarming in water, air, or on land.

The occurrences use the noun as a collective designation for creatures characterized in their setting or movement: waters are filled with living creatures, winged creatures walk on four, and land creatures include those moving on belly, four feet, or many feet. Several passages place such creatures within food and uncleanness instructions, without requiring a separate lexical sense.

1. Collective class of moving creatures · dominant

   In Genesis 1:20, the construct form occurs in the command concerning waters and living creatures; the APB renders the clause, "Let the waters swarm with a swarm of living creatures." In Leviticus 11:20 and Deuteronomy 14:19, the same construct form is used in clauses about winged creatures, while the absolute form in Leviticus 11:29 and Leviticus 11:42 occurs in land-creature lists that include a weasel, mouse, lizard, and creatures moving on their belly, four feet, or many feet. Leviticus 5:2 places the absolute form among unclean things that may be touched.

   Genesis 1:20Leviticus 11:20Deuteronomy 14:19Leviticus 11:29Leviticus 11:42Leviticus 5:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the category as a "swarm," "swarmer," "swarming creatures," and a "swarming thing" across the supplied verses. These are renderings of whole clauses to the individual Hebrew token.