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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But they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.
You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of your harps: the maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
Where the 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 laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.
Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
For you have hidden their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them.
And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered.
Where the worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and died.
And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for the space of three months, arguing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
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But they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.
But they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.
You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes ashamed is like rottenness in his bones.
Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of your harps: the maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of your harps: the maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and they that dwell in it shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and died.
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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But they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.
You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
And though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.
Where the worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and died.
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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But they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.
But they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left some of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was angry with them.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.
You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of your harps: the maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of your harps: the maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Where the worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses which grow not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and died.