" 'Any {winged insect} that walks on [all] fours [is] detestable to you.

Yet these may you eat of every winged insect that goes upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, to leap with upon the earth;

But any [other] {winged insect} that has four legs [is] detestable to 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.

And the king said, “Is there no longer anyone left of the house (family) of Saul to whom I may show the goodness and graciousness of God?” Ziba replied to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan, [one] whose feet are crippled.”

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 wings
beyond 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.