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# תּוֹלָע

Biblical Hebrew

**worm** — used 2 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/lemma_3a_5ea_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc_5b8_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹלָע: worm, scarlet stuff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc_5b8_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] worm, scarlet stuff (dyed with the coccus ilicis, v. שָׁנִי, ThatcherHast.DB Colours);— worm, only pl. תּוֹלָעִים, in stale manna Ex 16:20 (P). scarlet stuff, abs. sg. תּוֹלָע Is 1:18 (in sim. ‖ שָׁנִים; opp. צֶמֶר); token of luxury La 4:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: crimson (2).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 4:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.5/#tree)

הָאֹֽכְלִים֙ לְמַ֣עֲדַנִּ֔ים נָשַׁ֖מּוּ בַּחוּצ֑וֹת הָאֱמֻנִים֙ עֲלֵ֣י תוֹלָ֔ע חִבְּק֖וּ אַשְׁפַּתּֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* \[those who\].ate (to) delicacies they.are.desolate in the streets \[those who.were\].brought.up on crimson they.have.embraced ash.heaps

*JPS 1917:* They that did feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

[Isaiah 1:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.18/#tree)

לְכוּ־נָ֛א וְנִוָּֽכְחָ֖ה יֹאמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה אִם־יִֽהְי֨וּ חֲטָאֵיכֶ֤ם כַּשָּׁנִים֙ כַּשֶּׁ֣לֶג יַלְבִּ֔ינוּ אִם־יַאְדִּ֥ימוּ כַתּוֹלָ֖ע כַּצֶּ֥מֶר יִהְיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* come please and let.us.argue.our.case.together he.says Yahweh though they.are sins your like (the) scarlet like (the) snow they.will.become.white though they.are.red like (the) crimson like (the) wool they.will.be

*JPS 1917:* Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc_5b8_5e2.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5bc_5d5_5b9_5dc_5b8_5e2/): 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).