BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8438
to.la — worm
1) worm, scarlet stuff, crimson 1a) worm-the female 'coccus ilicis' 1b) scarlet stuff, crimson, scarlet 1b1) the dye made from the dried body of the female of the worm "coccus ilicis" Also means: to.le.ah (תּוֹלֵעָה "worm" H8438B)
43 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7415
rim.mah — worm
maggot, worm (as cause and sign of decay)
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4663
skōlēx — worm
σκώληξ, -ηκος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for תּוֹלָע and cogn. forms ;] a worm: of the kind which preys upon dead bodies, metaphorically, of fut. punishment, Mrk.9:48 (LXX, Isa.66:24; cf. Sir.7:17, Jdth.16:17).† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G21268
hulotomos — worm
cutting or felling wood , (Iliad by Homer):—; as Substantive ὑλοτόμος, a wood-cutter, woodman , (Iliad by Homer) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3939
la.a.nah — wormwood
1) wormwood 1a) bitterness (metaph.)
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8439
to.la — Tola
A man of the tribe of Issachar living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.13; son of: Issachar (H3485); brother of: Puah (H6312), Jashub (H3437H) and Shimron (H8110B); father of: Uzzi (H5813H), Rephaiah (H7509I), Jeriel (H3400), Jahmai (H3181), Ibsam (H3005) and Shemuel (H8050I) Also named: to.la.i (תּוֹלָעִי "Tolaite" H8440) § Tola = "worm" 1) the 1st born of Issachar and progenitor of the family of Tolaites 2) a man of Issachar, son of Puah and judge of Israel after Abimelech
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4662
skōlēkobrōtos — worm-eated
σκωληκό-βρωτος, -ον (σκώληξ, βιβρώσκω), eaten of worms: Act.12:23 (cf. 2Ma.9:9, and see MM, xxiii) † (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G894
apsinthos — wormwood
ἄψινθος, -ου, ἡ (also ἀψίνθιον, τό; ἀψινθία, ἡ), wormwood: as a proper name, Rev.8:11.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8440
to.la.i — Tolaite
Someone descended from Tola who was a man of the tribe of Issachar living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.13; son of: Issachar (H3485); brother of: Puah (H6312), Jashub (H3437H) and Shimron (H8110B); father of: Uzzi (H5813H), Rephaiah (H7509I), Jeriel (H3400), Jahmai (H3181), Ibsam (H3005) and Shemuel (H8050I) Group of to.la (תּוֹלָע "Tola" H8439) § Tolaites, of Tola "worm" descendants of Tola the son of Issachar
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6280
anazeō — to break out
1. to boil up or bubble up , (Sophocles Tragicus) 2. ἀναζ. εὐλάς to swarm with worms, a kind of disease, (Plutarch); also, εὐλαὶ ἀναζέουσιν (Plutarch) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7091
ekzeō — to erupt
1. to boil out or over, break out , of curses, (Aeschulus Tragicus) 2. with genitive, εὐλέων ἐξέζεσε boiled over with worms, i. e. bred worms, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(1.) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. (2.) The manna bred worms (tola’im), but on the Sabbath there was not any worm (rimmah) therein (Ex. 16:20, 24). Here these words refer to caterpillars or larvae, which feed on corrupting matter. These two Hebrew words appear to be interchangeable (Job 25:6; Isa. 14:11). Tola’im in some places denotes the caterpillar (Deut. 28:39; Jonah 4:7), and rimmah, the larvae, as bred from putridity (Job 17:14; 21:26; 24:20). In Micah 7:17, where it is said, “They shall move out of their holes like worms,” perhaps serpents or “creeping things,” or as in the Revised Version, “crawling things,” are meant. The word is used figuratively in Job 25:6; Ps. 22:6; Isa. 41:14; Mark 9:44, 46, 48; Isa. 66:24.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
