Midvash

פַּרְעֹשׁparʻôsh

flea (1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 26:20)

Pronunciation: par-oshe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6550

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 24:14 Who is the king of Israel trying to catch anyway? Should he spend his time chasing one who is as worthless as a dead dog or a single flea?
  • 1 Samuel 26:20 Must I die on foreign soil, far from the presence of the Lord? Why has the king of Israel come out to search for a single flea? Why does he hunt me down like a partridge on the mountains?”

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).