Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta. 2. (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion. 3. (n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates. 4. (n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing. 5. (a.) of or pertaining to an insect or insects. 6. (a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

Multi-Version Concordance Insect (6 Occurrences) 1 Samuel 24:14 After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect. (BBE) Job 4:19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect; (BBE) Job 25:6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm! (BBE) Isaiah 51:8 For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations. (BBE) Jeremiah 46:20 Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north. (BBE) Hosea 5:12 And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah. (BBE)