Biblical names
The animals of the Tanakh — 162 words, every animal the twenty-four books name, from the donkey of Bereshit 12 to the legendary creatures of Iyov and the Psalms. Each was enumerated from our own lexicon layer and read against the corpus: the count on a row is the count its door opens, the first appearance is the word's own, and where the tradition discusses what a word names, the row says so instead of inventing certainty.
A spelling is not a word: rachel the ewe and Rachel the matriarch share their letters, and only the ewe is counted here — the rows count the word's own lexicon entry, and where one entry bundles a creature with something else, the row counts the creature's verses alone and its note tells you.
Where the Torah names a kind, it rules the name: the kinds Devarim permits and the birds Vayikra prohibits are ruled by name, certain even where what the name names is discussed. The rest are ruled the way the Torah rules them — beasts by the signs of Vayikra 11, birds by that enumeration and by the tradition a bird has to carry, since the Torah gave signs for beasts and none for birds. Where the tradition itself discusses a status the row says so, and the legendary and collective rows carry no ruling at all. The offering mark stands on the korban species — the herd, the flock, the turtledove and the dove.
Collective terms
8 words — the words that name animals as kinds — beast, flock, herd, fowl, swarm — counted here so no reader finds them missing
×73 in Tanakh First appearance:
The of — every winged thing of the fifth day, 'of the sky' in the Torah's constant phrase; the Aramaic of Daniel is counted with this row. The single birds each have their own rows.
See all 73 places it stands →×15 in Tanakh First appearance:
The sheretz — the swarmers of water, earth and air, the Torah's category for the teeming small: 'every swarming thing that swarms.'
See all 15 places it stands →×190 in Tanakh First appearance:
The Torah's own word for the animal as such — the behemah of the sixth day, of the Teivah, of the firstborn. Iyov's singular Behemot stands apart, among the legendary creatures.
See all 190 places it stands →×17 in Tanakh First appearance:
The remes — everything that creeps on the ground, of the sixth day and the Teivah's manifest; in Tehillim 104 the small and great creeping things of the sea.
See all 17 places it stands →×276 in Tanakh Offering species First appearance:
The tzon — sheep and goats together, the flock of the shepherds from Hevel onward, and the standing figure for Israel: 'and you, My flock.' The rarer spelling tzoneh of the Psalms is counted with this row.
See all 276 places it stands →×44 in Tanakh First appearance:
The tzippor — the bird as such, of the nest you may not take with her young, of the escaped soul 'like a bird from the snare'; Daniel's Aramaic is counted with this row. Tzippor father of Balak is a different entry, on the names lists.
See all 44 places it stands →×183 in Tanakh Offering species First appearance:
The bakar — the ox-kind as a herd, always beside the tzon in the count of wealth and offerings. The same letters write boker, morning, under a different entry; only the herd is counted here.
See all 183 places it stands →×6 in Tanakh First appearance:
The be'ir — livestock as the grazing kind, the word of Bilam's aton's owners and of the cities of the Levites.
See all 6 places it stands →Where these come from. The candidates were enumerated from the Hebrew lexicon our index carries — every entry whose definition names an animal sense — then each was verified against the corpus itself: its spelling, its count, its first stand. The gematria is computed by the same engine that runs every search, and the count on each row is the number of verses its door opens — the same walk, counted once. Deliberately absent: words that are only ever epithets (the אבירים of the Psalms), the scapegoat's destination עזאזל (the goat itself is the שעיר), and Yeshayahu 2:20's moles, which the ketiv writes across two words and are left to their verse.