An insect with large eyes and one pair of wings, often seen around garbage and decaying food.
About Fly
Two-winged insect. In Scripture, several species are in view, including the common housefly (Eccl 10:1) and the horsefly (Is 7:18). See Animals.
Key References
This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
All Scripture References (10)
Exodus (5)
This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water, stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”
We must make a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He commands us.”
Psalms (2)
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
He spoke, and insects swarmed—gnats throughout their country.
Ecclesiastes (1)
As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
Isaiah (1)
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
Mark (1)
they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”