תּוֹלָעtôwlâʻ
תּוֺלָע: worm, scarlet stuff
Pronunciation: to-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8438
Meanings
1. worm (Exodus 16:20)
2. scarlet stuff (Isaiah 1:18; Lamentations 4:5)
תּוֺלֵעָה: worm
1. worm, grub, vine-weevil (Jonah 4:7; Deuteronomy 28:39; Isaiah 14:11)
2. elsewhere, of the coccus ilicis yielding scarlet colour (Leviticus 14:4; Leviticus 14:6; Leviticus 14:49)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 43 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 16:20 But some of them didn’t listen and kept some of it until morning. But by then it was full of maggots and had a terrible smell. Moses was very angry with them.
- Exodus 25:4 blue, purple, and scarlet thread; fine linen and goat hair for cloth;
- Exodus 26:1 “Make the Tabernacle from ten curtains of finely woven linen. Decorate the curtains with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and with skillfully embroidered cherubim.
- Exodus 26:31 “For the inside of the Tabernacle, make a special curtain of finely woven linen. Decorate it with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and with skillfully embroidered cherubim.
- Exodus 26:36 “Make another curtain for the entrance to the sacred tent. Make it of finely woven linen and embroider it with exquisite designs, using blue, purple, and scarlet thread.
- Exodus 27:16 “For the entrance to the courtyard, make a curtain that is 30 feet long. Make it from finely woven linen, and decorate it with beautiful embroidery in blue, purple, and scarlet thread. Support it with four posts, each securely set in its own base.
See every passage
- Exodus 16:20, 25:4, 26:1, 26:31, 26:36, 27:16, 28:5, 28:6, 28:8, 28:15, 28:33, 35:6, 35:23, 35:25, 35:35, 36:8, 36:35, 36:37, 38:18, 38:23, 39:1, 39:2, 39:3, 39:5, 39:8, 39:24, 39:29
- Leviticus 14:4, 14:6, 14:49, 14:51, 14:52
- Numbers 4:8, 19:6
- Deuteronomy 28:39
- Job 25:6
- Psalms 22:6
- Isaiah 1:18, 14:11, 41:14, 66:24
- Lamentations 4:5
- Jonah 4:7
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).