Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1902 — Genesis of a Word. [ARTICLE]

Genesis of a Word.

Bug originally meant a goblin. The Welah word bug means a ghost. The Hebrew word which, In Psalms, xc., 5, Is represented by "terror,” was in the early translations rendered bug, the verse being, “Thou shalt not need to bo afraid of any bugs by night”