רָמָה Maggot
Every verse in which this word stands — 7 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
The rimmah — of the manna that bred worms, and of Iyov's unsparing view of man. The same letters write Ramah the town, under its own entry on the names lists.
וַיַּנִּיחוּ אֹתוֹ עַד־הַבֹּקֶר כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה מֹשֶׁה וְלֹא הִבְאִישׁ וְרִמָּה לֹא־הָיְתָה בּֽוֹ
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not rot, neither was there any worm therein.
הוּרַד שְׁאוֹל גְּאוֹנֶךָ הֶמְיַת נְבָלֶיךָ תַּחְתֶּיךָ יֻצַּע רִמָּה וּמְכַסֶּיךָ תּוֹלֵעָֽה
Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world, And the noise of thy psalteries; the maggot is spread under thee, And the worms cover thee.’
לָבַשׁ בְּשָׂרִי רִמָּה וגיש עָפָר עוֹרִי רָגַע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.
לַשַּׁחַת קָרָאתִי אָבִי אָתָּה אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָֽרִמָּֽה
If I have said to corruption: ‘Thou art my father’, To the worm: ‘Thou art my mother, and my sister’;
יַחַד עַל־עָפָר יִשְׁכָּבוּ וְרִמָּה תְּכַסֶּה עֲלֵיהֶֽם
They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
יִשְׁכָּחֵהוּ רֶחֶם מְתָקוֹ רִמָּה עוֹד לֹֽא־יִזָּכֵר וַתִּשָּׁבֵר כָּעֵץ עַוְלָֽה
The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness is broken as a tree.
אַף כִּֽי־אֱנוֹשׁ רִמָּה וּבֶן־אָדָם תּוֹלֵעָֽה
How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a maggot!
Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for maggot?
Maggot in Hebrew is רמה, with a gematria of 245 in the standard method.
How many times is the maggot mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 7 times in the Tanakh, first at Exodus 16:24.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters רמה stand 19 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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