Stretch: Exo 8:5, Exo 8:17 lice: The word kinnim is rendered by the LXX σκιφες, σκιπες, or σκνηφες, and by the Vulgate sciniphes, Gnats; and Mr. Harmer supposes he has found out the true meaning in the word tarrentes, a species of worm. Bochart, however, seems to have proved that lice, and not gnats, are meant; because: 1. They sprang from the dust, and not from the waters; 2. They were on both man and beast, which cannot be said of gnats; 3. Their name is derived from koon, to make firm, fix, establish, which cannot agree with gnats, flies, etc., which are ever changing place, and almost constantly on the wing; 4. The term kinnah is used by the Talmudists to express the louse. This insect must have been a very dreadful and afflicting plague to the Egyptians, and especially to the priests, who were obliged to shave all their hair off, and to wear a single linen tunic, to prevent vermin harbouring about them. Reciprocal: Exo 7:19 - stretch Exo 9:8 - Take to Exo 9:22 - General Psa 105:31 - and lice