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# רִמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7415

**worm** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

worm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7415/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִמָּה²: n.f. worm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7415/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. worm (cause and sign of decay);—abs. ר׳ Ex 16:24 (P), Is 14:11 (‖ תּוֹלֵעָה), Jb 7:5; 17:14; 21:26; 24:20 all indic. corruption, feeding on dead, etc.; hyperb. of insignificant man 25:6 (‖ תּוֹלֵעָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a maggot (3); maggot\[s\] (3); maggot (1).

## In the verses

[Job 25:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.25.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.25.6/#tree)

אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אֱנ֣וֹשׁ רִמָּ֑ה וּבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* indeed? (dm) a.person a.maggot and a.child of.humankind a.worm

*JPS 1917:* How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a maggot!

[Job 21:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.26/#tree)

יַ֭חַד עַל־עָפָ֣ר יִשְׁכָּ֑בוּ וְ֝רִמָּ֗ה תְּכַסֶּ֥ה עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* together on dust they.will.lie and a.maggot it.will.cover over them

*JPS 1917:* They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7415.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7415/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).