WORM
(a) Heb term. which designates all types of crawling invertebrate animals: “tõlë’ãh” and “tõla’ath”; gr. «skõlëx».
Attack:
to vegetables, vines, etc. (Deut. 28:39; Jon. 4:7);
to manna during the night (Ex. 16:20);
to corpses (Is. 14:11; cp. Is. 66:24 and Mr. 9:48),
into someone’s intestines, causing their death (Acts 12:23).
The human being, a weak creature, is compared to a worm (Jb. 25:6; Is. 41:14). The Lord uses it prophetically, as an indication of the depth of his humiliation in his death; “But I am a worm, and not a man” (Ps. 22:6).
(b) Heb. “rimmãh”, a collective term that implies both putrefaction and the worms that develop (Jb. 21:26; 24:20; Is. 14:11; Ex. 16:24).
This term designates man in Jb. 25:6.