Bible Dictionaries
Fly

Fly — Two Hebrew words are thus translated:

1. 'ãrõbh - Strongs: H6157 is the name of the Egyptian fly of the fourth plague; this name, a collective one, though translated as dog-fly in the Septuagint, seems to signify all kinds of flies. Flies are at all times an almost insufferable nuisance; the common house-fly, with the gnat, vexes men, while gad-flies of every description tsetse, œstru, hippoboscida, tabanus marocanus, etc., infest animals.
2. Zebhûbh - Strongs: H2070 is likewise the collective name of the Israeli fly, but more specifically of the gad-fly.

Though a trifle less annoying than in Egypt, flies were, however, deemed a plague severe enough in Israel to induce the natives to have recourse to the power of a special god, Bá'ál-zebhûbh, the master of the flies, that they and their cattle be protected against that scourge.

Verses:

• Exodus 8:21
• Exodus 8:22
• Exodus 8:24
• Exodus 8:29
• Exodus 8:31
• Psalms 78:45
• Psalms 105:31
• Ecclesiastes 10:1
• Isaiah 7:18