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# תֹּולַעַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8438

**worm** — used 41 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/1514/8438/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹלֵעָה: n.f. worm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8438/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. worm;—abs. תּוֹלֵעָה Is 14:11; Jb 25:6; תּוֹלַעַת Is 41:14 +, תּוֹלָ֑עַת Dt 28:39 Nu 19:6; cstr. תּוֹלַ֫עַת Ex 25:4 +; sf. תּוֹלַעְתָּם Is 66:24;— worm, grub, vine-weevil Jon 4:7; Dt 28:39 (coll.); devouring the dead Is 14:11 (coll.: ‖ רִמָּה), 66:24 (coll.); symbol of insignificance 41:14 Jb 25:6 (‖ רִמָּה), ψ 22:7. elsewhere (P) specif., + שָׁנִי (q.v.), of the coccus ilicis yielding scarlet colour: שְׁנִי (הַ)תּ׳ Lv 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; Nu 19:6; of crimson stuff, בֶּגֶד ת׳ שָׁנִי 4:8; usually תְּכֵלֶת וְאַרְגָּמָן וְת׳ (הַ)שָּׁנִי וגו׳ Ex 25:4; 26:1 + 24 times Ex.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: scarlet stuff (20); the scarlet stuff (6); the worm (3).

## 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!

[Exodus 25:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.4/#tree)

וּתְכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֥שׁ וְעִזִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and violet.stuff and purple and scarlet.stuff of.scarlet and fine.linen and goat.hair(s)

*JPS 1917:* and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8438/): 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).