Worm
רִמָּהStrong’s H7415rimmah (rim-mah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rimmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “maggot”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.”
Meaning
- Maggot, worm (as cause and sign of decay)
How it's translated
- maggot 3
- and a maggot 2
- to the maggot 1
- a maggot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Exodus 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- Job 17:14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- Job 21:26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
- Job 24:20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
- Job 25:6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
רִמָּה rimmah · worm
maggot, worm (as cause and sign of decay)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “worm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WORM, noun
[G. This word is probably named form a winding motion, and the root of swarm.]
- In common usage, any small creeping animal, or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals of different classes and orders, viz.
- In zoology, the term Vermes or worms has been applied to different divisions of invertebral animals, by different naturalists.
- Remorse; that which incessantly gnaws the conscience; that which torments.“Where their worm dieth not” Mark 9:44
- A being debased and despised.“I am a worm and no man” Psalms 22:6
All definitions and other forms of “worm”
- A spiral instrument or iron screw, used for drawing wads and cartridges from cannon or small arms.
- Something spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm; as the threads of a screw.
- In chemistry and distilleries, a spiral leaden pipe placed in a tub of water, through which the vapor passes in distillation, and in which it is cooled and condensed.
- A small worm-like ligament situated beneath a dogs tongue.
WORM, verb intransitive
To work slowly, gradually and secretly.
WORM, verb transitive
- To expel or undermine by slow and secret means.
- To cut something, called a worm from under the tongue of a dog.
- To draw the wad or cartridge from a gun; to clean by the worm
- To wind a rope spirally round a cable, between the strands; or to wind a smaller rope with spun yarn.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.