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Insects + Bites
Was this a life or death vacation situation?
In February 2007 a friend had "bites" on her back during a vacation. The second day the three "sites" were slightly bigger and really shocking pink. Some itching. The bites didn't look like bee stings. No stinger and no chunk of flesh missing either. Anyway my friend didn't say she was allergic and did not have an EpiPen®.
1) Went to the resort doctor who didn't admit to speaking English, just the country language! The previous patient was prescribed something and didn't know why.
We figured out that according to her, the bites weren't spider, ant or sand fly bites. What would you do? Draw the possible insect culprits, consult a dictionary?
2) My thoughts were that if we "asked" enough locals they would know something. Especially the bar keeps.
We spoke and motioned. They didn't know either. BUT one of them had the bright idea to clean the bite sites with straight GIN. It felt good after the initial "sting"! My friend laughed. The bar guests chimed in. There is a sand fly problem in the area. But none of us had bites on the legs.
My friend is definitely fine now.
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Are you afraid to go to other countries because of bees?
Bees are essential to pollination, so they are essential for people to LIVE.
The sting of a bee can be life-threatening.
The stings of a whole swarm definitely are!
So here is:
a swarm of bees - Deuteronomy 1:44, Judges 14:8, Psalm 118:12, Isaiah 7:18 (only OT references)
uno sciame d'api - Italian
bisvärm - Swedish
Sorry, any combination of "a,one,any,the" bee is not in the Bible. You'd have to find out any plural/singular rules for the language you need.
sting is featured on P.170 of the "Health Words in the Word" book with the combinations.
O death, where is your sting? 1 Corinthians 15:55
For the bee sting antidote we can adapt this to:
O LIFE, where is your sting? P.170
Bible syllables can give you the antidote:
E-PI - Acts 17:18 from the word Epicureans
Epí - Icelandic
epi - Italian
에비 - Korean
Waepi - Swahili (is the wa needed to make the name?)
epi - Swedish
Epi - Tagalog
Epi - Vietnamese
You'd know these wordings are in sample languages, if you looked around this website.
With the
sting ... of the needle from P. 170 (adding Matthew 19:24
we can now construct new sentences such as:
Where is your "EPI" sting ... of the needle?
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Here are some more findable Bible words in many languages that are useful in the vacation situation:
(all) flying insects - Deuteronomy 14:19
(tout) insecte ailé - French
(alle) geflügelte Insekten - German (Kleingetier xxx)
(todo) insecto alado - Spanish
(ogni) insetto che vola - Italian
spider - Job 8:14; Isaiah 59:5
Spindel - Danish
spin - Dutch
Spinne - German
αράχνη - Greek
ragno - Italian
aranha - Portuguese
araña - Spanish
паука - Russian
bui - Swahili
moth - Matthew 6:19+20; Luke 12:33
kipopo - same as butterflies - Swahili
ant Proverbs 6:6; 30:25
chungu - Swahili
butterfly - dictionaries (or descriptions)
vlinder - Dutch
papillon - French
Schmetterling - German
πεταλούδα - Greek
farfalla - Italian
borboleta - Portuguese
бабочка - Russian
mariposa - Spanish
kipepeo - Swahili
beetles - dictionaries (or descriptions)
bungu + (dict.) - Swahili
flea - 1 Samuel 24:14; 26:20
kiroboto (dict.) - Swahili
fly - Exodus 8:31
nzi (dict.) - Swahili
grasshopper - Leviticus 11:22
funutu - Swahili
locusts - Matthew 3:4; Mark 1:6
kululu/nzige (dict.) - Swahili
katydid - Leviticus 11:22
cricket - Leviticus 11:22
nyenje (dict.) - Swahili
bug aka insect (see above) - dictionaries (or descriptions)
parasites - dictionaries (or descriptions)
(malaria parasites) vimelea (vya malaria) - Swahili
mosquito - dictionaries (pictures or descriptions)
moustique, maring(o)uin - French, Québécois
man wen yeui rui - Chinese
muskiet - Dutch
.ج.ش.) پشه) - Farsi/Persian
Mücke - German
machchhaDa, masA - Hindi
moszkitó, moszkító, szúnyog - Hungarian
nyamuk - Indonesian
zanzara - Italian
家蚊 (いえか), ka - Japanese
маса - Kazakh
모기 - Korean
mygg - Norwegian
mosquito - Portuguese
москит; комар - Russian
mosquito - Spanish
mbu - Swahili
lamok - Tagalog
English "Mos-qui-to" transliterated in Bible syllables is:
MO-SE-ra - Deuteronomy 10:6 (For languages not syllable oriented, dropping the second e for Mos- is fine)
Mos- French
Mô-sê - Vietnamese
KIsh - Acts 13:21
Ki - Vietnamese
TO-la - Judges 10:1
Thô - Vietnamese
For Vietnamese, I approximate the pronounced English word to be:
Mô-sê-ki-thô - Vietnamese
ringworm - dictionaries
tiña - Spanish
baka (sg.) mabaka (pl.) - Swahili
All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. - Leviticus 11:20
Ha. Ha. Do you know ANY four legged insects? I don't. If 2 of 6 insect legs were ripped out to make 4 or 2 putrified, nobody should be eating the insects that would normally be edible. So practically ALL or ALL insects, if there are species that are 4-legged ones, are NOT DETESTABLE to you. Then by logic, we would have to consider them good to eat. Made me and many other people besides me look at insects much more carefully. The aim of Bible writers was to make us aware of the world around us and to ponder questions like: Would you NOW eat insects, and which ones preferably, in an emergency, especially if you read verses 21 and 22? Well, six-legged creatures like ants, often just have 4 legs on the leaf/ground/etc. In any case, I'm not an "anteater" and I wouldn't like formic acid, SO I would NEVER eat ants. I think there is this language vagueness, as there are too many edible, inedible and poisonous insects to describe, that almost no book would hold all the words needed. Your taste buds and experience by locals should also give you a clue.
Skeptics would insist that the Bible is stupid because it has "stupid" statements like this Leviticus 11:20 one. Well, we can use this statement to generate useful ones from this seemingly stupid one.
We can generate and adapt to:
1) all non-flying insects
2) flying insects that walk on all SIXES
3) animals like insects that walk on all EIGHT legs
4) The "mosquito" that carries malaria (MA-LA-RI-A)is to be "detestable" to you. The syllables of mosquito (see above) and Malaria can be found in the Bible.
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We're still on the trail of:
itch: I wouldn't use the Bible word itch. It has too many translations of various itches, including "tickled".
tickle - dictionaries
Best bet is to ask or use dictionaries.
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