# H8438 תּוֹלָע

תּוֹלָע (tôwlâʻ), Strong’s H8438: the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the colorfrom it, and cloths dyed therewith KJV: crimson, scarlet, worm.. Occurs 43 times.

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*tôwlâʻ* — the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the colorfrom it, and cloths dyed therewith

KJV: crimson, scarlet, worm.

Derived from [יָלַע yâlaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H3216) (to blurt or utter inconsiderately)

Occurs 43 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תּוֹלָע n.[m.] worm, scarlet stuff
- תּוֹלֵעָה n.f
- תּוֹלֵעָה, תּוֹלַ֫עַת 40 n.f. worm

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 16:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=20) — Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became…
- [Exodus 25:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=4) — blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
- [Exodus 26:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=1) — “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with…
- [Exodus 26:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=31) — “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of…
- [Exodus 26:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=36) — “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of…
- [Exodus 27:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=16) — For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen…
- [Exodus 28:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=5) — They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- [Exodus 28:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=6) — “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
- [Exodus 28:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=8) — The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple…
- [Exodus 28:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=15) — “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make…