Creeping Thing in Hebrew

God specifically tells noah to take for the animals in genesis six 12 sare six 21. Of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come to you to keep them alive. Creeping thing in hebrew includes small invertebrate animals like ants and beetles that don't visibly breathe but do visibly creep along the ground. The biblical author understood creeping things to include those.