Strong’s H8438 · Hebrew
תּוֹלָע
tôwlâʻ · to-law'
Origin and (feminine) תּוֹלֵעָה; or תּוֹלַעַת; or תֹּלַעַת; from יָלַע (H3216); a maggot (as voracious); specifically (often with ellipsis of שָׁנִי (H8144))
Meaning the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the colorfrom it, and cloths dyed therewith
In the King James Version crimson, scarlet, worm.
In 15 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 16:20Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
- Exodus 25:4And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
- Exodus 26:36And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
- Exodus 39:2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Numbers 4:8And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
- Numbers 19:6And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
- Deuteronomy 28:39Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
- Job 25:6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
- Isaiah 1:18Come 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.
- Isaiah 14:11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
- Isaiah 41:14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 66:24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
- Lamentations 4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
- Jonah 4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.