Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8438: תּוֹלָע (tôwlâʻ) Definition

Strong's number
H8438
Lemma
תּוֹלָע
Transliteration
tôwlâʻ
Pronunciation
to-law'
Strong's definition
the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the colorfrom it, and cloths dyed therewith crimson, scarlet, worm. and (feminine) תּוֹלֵעָה; or תּוֹלַעַת; or תֹּלַעַת; from H3216 (יָלַע); a maggot (as voracious); specifically (often with ellipsis of H8144 (שָׁנִי))

44 instances of the word תּוֹלָע tôwlâʻ (H8438)


  • Leviticus 14:52 - And he shall cleanse the house with the blood bird water and with the living bird and with the living wood and with the cedar and with the hyssop and with the scarlet

  • Numbers 4:8 - And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering skins of badgers and shall put in the staves

  • Numbers 19:6 - shall take And the priest wood cedar and hyssop and scarlet and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer

  • Psalms 22:6 - But I am a worm and no man a reproach of men and despised of the people