Exo 8:16-18 | TSK | e4.org | Stretch , lice The word kinnim is rendered by the LXX σκιφες , σκιπες , or σκνηφες , and by the Vulgate sciniphes , Gnats; and Mr. Harmer supposes he has found out the true meaning in the word tarrentes , a species of worm. Bochart, however, seems to have proved that lice, and not gnats, are meant; because: 1. They sprang from the dust, and not from the waters; 2. They were on both man and beast, which cannot be said of gnats; 3. Their name is derived from koon , to make firm, fix, establish, which cannot agree with gnats, flies, etc., which are ever changing place, and almost constantly on the wing; 4. The term kinnah is used by the Talmudists to express the louse. This insect must have been a very dreadful and afflicting plague to the Egyptians, and especially to the priests, who were obliged to shave all their hair off, and to wear a single linen tunic, to prevent vermin harbouring about them.

‏ Exodus 8:16-18

lice The word kinnim is rendered by the LXX σκιφες, σκιπες, or σκνηφες, and by the Vulgate sciniphes, Gnats; and Mr. Harmer supposes he has found out the true meaning in the word tarrentes, a species of worm. Bochart, however, seems to have proved that lice, and not gnats, are meant; because:

1. They sprang from the dust, and not from the waters;

2. They were on both man and beast, which cannot be said of gnats;

3. Their name is derived from koon, to make firm, fix, establish, which cannot agree with gnats, flies, etc., which are ever changing place, and almost constantly on the wing;

4. The term kinnah is used by the Talmudists to express the louse.

This insect must have been a very dreadful and afflicting plague to the Egyptians, and especially to the priests, who were obliged to shave all their hair off, and to wear a single linen tunic, to prevent vermin harbouring about them.

lice in man Ps 105:31; Isa 23:9; Acts 12:23

the magicians Exod 7:11

they could Exod 9:11; Gen 41:8; Isa 19:12, Isa 47:12-13; Dan 2:10-11, Dan 4:7, Dan 5:8; Luke 10:18; 2Tim 3:8-9