'Swarming' in the Bible
But anything that doesn't have fins or scales whether from the seas or the rivers any of the swarming creatures and living creatures in the waters are detestable for you.
"These are unclean for you among the swarming creatures that crawl over the land: the rat, mouse, lizards of every kind,
These are unclean for you among the swarming creatures, so anyone who touches them when they're dead becomes unclean until evening.
"Every swarming thing that swarms the land is detestable for you. It is not to be eaten.
You are not to eat anything that crawls on its belly, anything that walks on four legs, anything that has many legs, or any of the swarming creatures that swarm the land, because they're detestable.
You are not to make yourselves detestable on account of any swarming creature that swarms the land, and you are not to defile yourselves and become unclean due to them,
because I, the LORD, am your God. Set yourselves apart and be holy, because I am holy. You are not to defile yourselves with any of the swarming creatures that swarm the earth.
Any winged, swarming insect is unclean to you. They must not be eaten.
Let the heavens and earth praise him, along with the sea and its swarming creatures.
In that place fire will consume you, the sword will cut you down, consuming you as locusts do. Multiply yourself like locusts, increase like swarming grasshoppers.
Your imperial guards are like the swarming grasshopper; your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers, settling in the stone walls on a chilly day. The sun rises, and they flee away; no one knows where they went.