Creep
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
(2): (n.) The act or process of creeping.
(3): (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
(4): (v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
(5): (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
(6): (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
(7): (v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
(8): (v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
(9): (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
(10): (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
(11): (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
King James Dictionary [2]
Creep, Gr., the sense is to catch, to grapple L., to scrape or scratch.
1. To move with the belly on the ground, or the surface of any other body, as a worm or serpent without legs, or as many insects with feet and very short legs to crawl. 2. To move along the ground, or on the surface of any other body, in growth, as a vine to grow along. 3. To move slowly, feebly or timorously as an old or infirm man, who creeps about his chamber. 4. To move slowly and insensibly, as time.
To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
5. To move secretly to move so as to escape detection, or prevent suspicion.
Of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead away captive silly women. 2 Timothy 3 .
6. To steal in to move forward unheard and unseen to come or enter unexpectedly or unobserved as, some error has crept into the copy of a history. 7. To move or behave with servility to fawn.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Acts 10:12 (b) This is a type of worldly people who are so attached to this earth and its affairs that they never appreciate spiritual values. But they were cleansed and saved.
Judges 1:4 (a) The writer describes the subtle, clever, insidious ways of the enemies of God who get in among GOD's people to make known their evil doctrines and to turn away the people from the true faith in God.
