Creep, Creeping, Crept - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Creep, Creeping, Crept
[ A-1,Verb,G1744, enduno ]properly, to envelop in" (en, "in," duno, "to enter"), "to put on," as of a garment, has the secondary and intransitive significance of "creeping into, insinuating oneself into," and is found with this meaning in 2 Timothy 3:6. Cp. enduo, "to clothe."
[ A-2,Verb,G391, pareisduno ]
"to enter in by the side" (para, "beside," eis, "in"), to insinuate oneself into, by stealth, to creep in stealthily, is used in Jude 1:4.
[ B-1,Noun,G2062, herpeton ]
signifies a "creeping thing" (herpo, "to creep;" Eng., "serpent" is from the same root), James 3:7 (RV, "creeping things," for AV, "serpents," which form only one of this genus); it is set in contrast to quadrupeds and birds, Acts 10:12; Acts 11:6; Romans 1:23. See SERPENT.