Reference: Worm
Easton
(1.) Heb sas (Isa 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth.
(2.) The manna bred worms (tola'im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex 16:20,24). Here these words refer to caterpillars or larvae, which feed on corrupting matter.
These two Hebrew words appear to be interchangeable (Job 25:6; Isa 14:11). Tola'im in some places denotes the caterpillar (De 28:39; Jon 4:7), and rimmah, the larvae, as bred from putridity (Job 17:14; 21:26; 24:20). In Mic 7:17, where it is said, "They shall move out of their holes like worms," perhaps serpents or "creeping things," or as in the Revised Version, "crawling things," are meant.
The word is used figuratively in Job 25:6; Ps 22:6; Isa 41:14; Mr 9:44,46,48; Isa 66:24.
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And they heard not to Moses; and the men will leave from it till morning, and it will rot with worms, and it will stink: and Moses will be angry with them.
And they left it till morning as Moses commanded: and it did not stink, and no worm was in it.
Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it
I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister.
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, a worm; and the son of man, a worm. .
How much less man, a worm; and the son of man, a worm. .
And I a worm and not a man; a reproach of man, and the people despised me.
Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.
Thou shalt not fear, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I helped thee, says Jehovah, and thy redeemer the Holy One of Israel.
For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.
And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.
And God will appoint a worm in the going up of the morning for the morrow, and it will strike the gourd, and it will dry up.
They shall lick the dust as the serpent, as crawlers of the earth they shall move out of their close places: for Jehovah our God they shall tremble and they shall fear from thee
Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
Fausets
Not the earth worm (Lumbricus terrestris). Isa 51:8; "the moth ('ash) shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm (sas) shall eat them like wool." The sas is a species of (See MOTH . Rimmah synonymous with toleah; applied to the worm bred in the manna when kept more than a day (Ex 16:26), tolaim, answering to rimmah (Ex 16:24); so in Job 25:6; maggots and larvae of insects which feed on putrefying matter (Job 21:26; 24:20; 7:5; 17:4); maggots were bred in Job's sores produced by elephantiasis. "Herod was eaten of worms" (Ac 12:23). Josephus tells the same of Herod the Great (Ac 19:8), and 2Ma 9:9 of Antiochus Epiphanes.
In Job 19:26; Hebrew "though after my skin (is destroyed) this (body) is destroyed," Job omits "body" because it was so wasted as not to deserve the name. The tolath was to eat the grapes of apostate Israel (De 28:39); also Jonah's gourd (Jon 4:7). Hell is associated with the "worm that dieth not," an image from maggots preying on putrid carcass (Isa 66:24). (See HELL.) Mr 9:44,46,48, "THEIR worm" is the gnawing self reproach of conscience, ever continuing and unavailing remorse. The Lord Jesus represents here both the worm and those on whom it preys as never dying. Symbolizing at once decay and loathsome humiliation, and this everlasting.
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And they left it till morning as Moses commanded: and it did not stink, and no worm was in it.
Six days ye shall gather, and in the seventh day, the Sabbath, it shall not be in it.
Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it
And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.
For thou didst hide their heart from understanding; for this thou wilt not exalt them.
And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, a worm; and the son of man, a worm. .
For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.
And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.
And God will appoint a worm in the going up of the morning for the morrow, and it will strike the gourd, and it will dry up.
Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.
And having come into the synagogue, he spake freely, discoursing for three months, and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
Hastings
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And they heard not to Moses; and the men will leave from it till morning, and it will rot with worms, and it will stink: and Moses will be angry with them.
And they heard not to Moses; and the men will leave from it till morning, and it will rot with worms, and it will stink: and Moses will be angry with them.
And they left it till morning as Moses commanded: and it did not stink, and no worm was in it.
And they left it till morning as Moses commanded: and it did not stink, and no worm was in it.
Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it
And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, a worm; and the son of man, a worm. .
How much less man, a worm; and the son of man, a worm. .
A woman of strength is a crown to her husband: and she causing shame, as rottenness in his bones.
Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.
Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth from beneath: for the heavens as smoke vanished away, and the earth as a garment shall decay, and they inhabiting as thus shall die; and my salvation shall be forever, and my justice shall not be broken.
And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.
And I as a moth to Ephraim, and as rottenness to the house of Judah.
And God will appoint a worm in the going up of the morning for the morrow, and it will strike the gourd, and it will dry up.
They shall lick the dust as the serpent, as crawlers of the earth they shall move out of their close places: for Jehovah our God they shall tremble and they shall fear from thee
And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.
Smith
Worm,
the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas, which occurs in
probably denotes some particular species of moth, whose larva is injurious to wool. Rimmah,
points evidently to various kinds of maggots and the larvae of insects which feed on putrefying animal matter, rather than to earthworms. Toleah is applied in
De 28:39
to some kinds of larvae destructive to the vines. In
there is an allusion to worms (insect larvae) feeding on the dead bodies of the buried. There is the same allusion in
which words are applied by our Lord,
metaphorically to the torments of the guilty in the world of departed spirits. The valley of Hinnom near Jerusalem, where the filth of the city was cast, was alive with worms. The death of Herod Agrippa I, was caused by worms.
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And they heard not to Moses; and the men will leave from it till morning, and it will rot with worms, and it will stink: and Moses will be angry with them.
Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it
And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
None providing for her of all the sons she brought forth; and none holding by her hand of all the sons she caused to grow.
And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.
Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.
Watsons
WORM, the general name in Scripture for little creeping insects. Several kinds are spoken of:
1. Those that breed in putrefied bodies, ???, Ex 16:20,24; Job 7:5; 17:14; 21:26; 24:20; 25:6; Isa 14:11; ??????, Ecclus. 7:17; 10:11; 1 Mac. 2:62; 2 Mac. 9:9; Judith 16:17; Mr 9:44,46,48; Ac 12:23.
2. That which eats woollen garments, ??, Isa 51:8; ???, Mt 6:19-20; Lu 12:33.
3. That which, perforating the leaves and bark of trees, causes the little excrescences called kermes, whence is made a crimson dye, ????, De 28:39; Job 25:6; Ps 22:6; Isa 14:11; 41:14; 66:24; Ex 16:20; Jon 4:7.
4. The worm destructive of the vines, referred to in De 28:39; which was the pyralis vitanae, or pyralis fasciana, of Forskal, the vine weevil, a small insect extremely hurtful to the vines.
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And they heard not to Moses; and the men will leave from it till morning, and it will rot with worms, and it will stink: and Moses will be angry with them.
And they heard not to Moses; and the men will leave from it till morning, and it will rot with worms, and it will stink: and Moses will be angry with them.
And they left it till morning as Moses commanded: and it did not stink, and no worm was in it.
Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it
Thou shalt plant vineyards and thou shalt work; and thou shalt not drink the wine, and thou shalt not gather, for the worm shall eat it
And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.
I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister.
They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, a worm; and the son of man, a worm. .
How much less man, a worm; and the son of man, a worm. .
And I a worm and not a man; a reproach of man, and the people despised me.
Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.
Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.
Thou shalt not fear, thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel; I helped thee, says Jehovah, and thy redeemer the Holy One of Israel.
For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.
And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.
And God will appoint a worm in the going up of the morning for the morrow, and it will strike the gourd, and it will dry up.
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal: But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal.
Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.
And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.