'Flies' in the Bible

But if you will not let My people go, then I will send swarms of flies against you, your officials, your people, and your houses. The Egyptians’ houses will swarm with flies, and so will the land where they live.

But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people are living; no flies will be there. This way you will know that I, Yahweh, am in the land.

And the Lord did this. Thick swarms of flies went into Pharaoh’s palace and his officials’ houses. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will appeal to the Lord, and tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceptively again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the Lord.”

The Lord did as Moses had said: He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people; not one was left.

or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

He sent among them swarms of flies,which fed on them,and frogs, which devastated them.

You will not fear the terror of the night,the arrow that flies by day,

As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,for it makes wings for itselfand flies like an eagle to the sky.

Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil ferment and stink;so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

You have made your merchantsmore numerous than the stars of the sky.The young locust strips the landand flies away.