FLEA

Flea. Flea
David at the cave of Adullam thus addressed his persecutor Saul (1 Sam. 24:14): “After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea?” He thus speaks of himself as the poor, contemptible object of the monarch’s pursuit, a “worthy object truly for an expedition of the king of Israel with his picked troops!” This insect is in Eastern language the popular emblem of insignificance. In 1 Sam. 26:20 the LXX. read “come out to seek my life” instead of “to seek a flea.”

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FLEA. → General scriptures concerning 1Sa 24:14; 26:20

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flea. Flea, n. a troublesome insect; v.t. to clean from fleas

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Flea (flē), v. t. [[See Flay.]] To flay. He will be fleaed first And horse collars made of's skin. J. Fletcher.