• (n.) Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.
Scin'iph noun [ Latin scinifes , cinifes , or ciniphes , plural, Greek ....] Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like. Ex. viii. 17 (Douay version).