The word in Scripture

Worm in the Bible

The word worm appears 14 times in the King James Version of the Bible. The worm is the picture of lowliness and mortality. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What worm means in the Bible

The worm is the picture of lowliness and mortality.

Where the word worm appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word worm appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.”Exodus 16:24

“I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.”Job 17:14

“How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?”Job 25:6

“But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.”Psalms 22:6

“For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.”Isaiah 51:8

“And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.”Isaiah 66:24

“But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.”Jonah 4:7

“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”Mark 9:44