蚤
zao（neutral tone inside its word; zǎo on its own）
advancedRadical 虫Strokes 9
How is 蚤 read in the Chinese Bible?
蚤 is read zao in the Chinese Union Version. It occurs 2 times in 2 verses across 1 books, first in 1 Samuel 24:14. Common words: 虼蚤.
- Occurrences
- 2
- Verses
- 2
- Books
- 1
- First in
- 1 Samuel 24:14
Words it forms in the Bible
- 虼蚤gè zao× 2(coll.) flea
Meaning: flea; louse
In the text
- 1 Samuel 24:14
以色列王出来要寻找谁呢？追赶谁呢？不过追赶一条死狗，一个虼蚤就是了。
- 1 Samuel 26:20
现在求王不要使我的血流在离耶和华远的地方。以色列王出来是寻找一个虼蚤，如同人在山上猎取一个鹧鸪一般。」
Reading checked against CC-CEDICT, for the character or the word it sits in.
Rare: outside the 3,500 level-1 characters of the 通用规范汉字表 (2013), China’s official list of common characters. For learners: common by that list, but in no HSK 3.0 word of levels 1–6.