sciniphEtymologyFrom Latin scinifes, cinifes or ciniphes, plural, from Ancient Greek σκνίψ (skníps, “gnat, small fly(, flea?)”), plural σκνῖφες (sknîphes) or σκνῖπες (sknîpes).sciniph means A kind of stinging or biting insect; a flea, gnat, sandfly, or the like. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.nounA kind of stinging or biting insect; a flea, gnat, sandfly, or the like.“And they did ſo. And Aaron ſtreched fotth his hand, holding the rodde: and he ſtroke the duſt of the earth, and there were made ſciniphes on men and on beaſtes: al the duſt of the earth was turned into ſciniphes through the whole Land of Ægypt.”