'Insect' in the Bible
and any winged insect that crawls on four legs is detestable for you.
But any other winged insect that has four legs is detestable for you
Any winged, swarming insect is unclean to you. They must not be eaten.
After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
Ah! The land of buzzing insect wingsbeyond the rivers of Cush
For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
""Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says, "Watch out! I'm opposing your amulets with which you hunt souls as one would swat at a flying insect. I'll tear them off your arms and then deliver those people, whom you've hunted like birds.
And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.