[lit. mind + have]
Biblical: living being, animal, supernatural being: gnam 'og gi sems can thams cad/ all creatures under heaven (Col. 1:23), rgya mtsho'i sems can/ creatures of the sea (Jas. 3:7), sems can bzhi/ the four living creatures (Rev. 4:8), sems can rnams gru'i nang la bcug nas/ after the animals are in the ark (DPD). In a philosophical sense, the Tibetan term sems can/ "having mind" is very different from, and cannot be equated with, the English word creature (i.e. "what is created").
Buddhist: 1) in spoken language, animals; though in some dialect areas may include man as well: rim pas yar rgyas je cher song ba'i yid can 'gro ba mi dang /,,spros med dud 'gro lta bu'i sems can gang 'dra zhig yin rung / whether they belong to more evolved [rim pas yar rgyas je cher/ ] species like humans or to simpler ones such as animals (DLP 7-8), sems can tshang mar byams brtse chen pas skyong bar mdzad pa/ [the Buddha] treated all animals with loving compassion (SGN 3); 2) in Bst. cosmology, all beings having a mind, or who are in some way conscious: nang pa sangs rgyas pa'i lta ba gzhir bzhag byas na/,,rang re tshang mas grangs las 'das pa'i skye ba yang nas yang du blangs dang len rgyu ma zad/,,sems can re res kyang rang cag gi pha ma byas dang byed srid pa de ltar yin/ according to Buddhist theory, we are born and reborn countless numbers of times, and it is conceivable that each being [sems can/ ] has been our parent at one time or another (DLP 15), 'dod pa'i khams na gnas pa'i sems can/ beings in the desire realm (KBT 116), sems can gyi sdug bsngal/ the suffering of living beings (TRC 76).
[lit. created one]
Biblical: creature: nam mkha' dang /,,sa dang /,,sa 'og dang /,,rgya mtsho la gnas pa'i bkod pa thams cad/ every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea (Rev. 5:13). see create.
Biblical: a thing, an object: g.yo bar 'gyur bar mdzad pa'i dngos po rnams/ what can be shaken - that is, created things (Heb. 12:27 SV).
Buddhist: 1) matter, things that exist: 'dod pa'i dngos po/ object of desire (TRC 270), gzhan gyi dngos po/ another's possession (TRC 243), dngos po yar rgyas/ material progress (DLP 2), dngos po dang nang lta ba/ matter and ideology (DLP 6); 2) any observable object, which in Bst. philosophy exists only from moment to moment, "created" by its causes dngos po rang dbang yod min/ no independent thing exists (LKT 8), dngos po yod pa nyid mi skye/ an existent thing does not arise (LKT 6), rten cing 'brel par gang byung ba/,,/de nyid khyod ni stong par bzhed/ what arises dependently is what you have called emptiness (LKT 8).
Biblical: living, animate beings: rgya mtsho'i srog chags rnams/ creatures of the sea (Jas. 3:7 SV).
Buddhist: living things, animals: srog chags kyi rigs ha cad mang po/ very many kinds of living creatures (TRC 50).