Insects
INSECTS.See Animals, p. 67a.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Insects
insekts: In English Versions of the Bible, including the marginal notes, we find at least 23 names of insects or words referring to them: ant, bald locust, bee, beetle, cankerworm, caterpillar, creeping thing, cricket, crimson, flea, fly, gnat, grasshopper, honey, hornet, locust, louse, (lice), moth, palmer-worm, sandfly, scarlet-worm, silk-worm. These can be referred to about 12 insects, which, arranged systematically, are: Hymenoptera, ant, bee, hornet; Lepidoptera, clothes-moth, silk-worm; Siphonaptera, flea; Diptera, fly; Rhynchota, louse, scarletworm; Orthoptera, several kinds of grasshoppers and locusts.
The word worm refers not only to the scarletworm, but to various larvae of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera. Creeping things refers indefinitely to insects, reptiles, and beasts. In the list of 23 names given above honey and bee refer to one insect, as do crimson and scarlet. Sandfly has no place if lice be retained in Exo 8:16. Bald locust, beetle, canker-worm, cricket, and palmerworm probably all denote various kinds of grasshoppers and locusts. When the translators of English Versions of the Bible had to do with two or more Hebrew words for which there was only one well-recognized English equivalent, they seem to have been content with that alone, if the two Hebrew words occurred in different passages; e.g. zebhubh, fly (Ecc 10:1; Isa 7:18), and arobh, fly (Exo 8:21). On the other hand, they were put to it to find equivalents for the insect names in Lev 11:22; Joe 1:4, and elsewhere. For sale’am (Lev 11:22) they evidently coined bald locust, following a statement of the Talmud that it had a smooth head. For gazam and yelek they imported palmer-worm and canker-worm, two old English names of caterpillars, using caterpillar for hasl. The King James Version beetle for hargol is absolutely inappropriate, and the Revised Version (British and American) cricket, while less objectionable, is probably also incorrect. The English language seems to lack appropriate names for different kinds of grasshoppers and locusts, and it is difficult to suggest any names to take the places of those against which these criticisms are directed. See under the names of the respective insects. See also SCORPION and SPIDER, which are not included here because they are not strictly insects.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Insects
Clean and unclean
Lev 11:21-25; Deu 14:19 Ant; Bee; Beetle; Cankerworm; Caterpillar; Flea; Flies; Grasshopper; Hornet; Horse-leech; Lice; Locust; Moth; Palmer-Worm; Scorpion; Snail; Spider; Worm
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
INSECTS
ANTS
Pro 6:6; Pro 30:25
BEES
Deu 1:44; Jdg 14:8; Psa 118:12; Isa 7:18
FLEAS
1Sa 24:14
FLIES
Exo 8:21; Psa 78:45; Psa 105:31; Ecc 10:1
GNATS
Mat 23:24
GRASSHOPPERS, SEE
HORNETS
Exo 23:28; Deu 7:20; Jos 24:12
LOCUSTS
–SEE Agriculture,
MOTHS
Job 4:19; Job 13:28; Job 27:18; Isa 50:9; Hos 5:12; Mat 6:19; Jam 5:2
SPIDERS
Job 8:14; Pro 30:28; Isa 59:5