Proverbs 30:25
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
a. ASV: The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
b. YLT: The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,
c. Classic Amplified: The ants are a people not strong, yet they lay up their food in the summer;
d. Septuagint: The ants which are weak, and yet prepare their food in summer;
e. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/ Writings: The ants are a nation that is not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer.
1. “The ants are a people not strong…”
a. [The] ants [Strong: 5244 nmalah nem-aw-law' feminine from 5243; an ant (probably from its almost bisected form):--ant.]
b. [ae a] people [Strong: 5971 `am am from 6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:--folk, men, nation, people.]
c. not [Strong: 3808 lo' lo or lowi {lo}; or loh (Deut. 3:11) {lo}; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles (as follows):--X before, + or else, ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (X as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, + of a truth, + verily, for want, + whether, without.]
d. strong [Strong: 5794 `az az from 5810; strong, vehement, harsh:--fierce, + greedy, mighty, power, roughly, strong.]
1). Relatively speaking, that is, individually and comparatively, ants are among the strongest creatures on earth.
a). The ability of worker ants to carry many times their own body weight is well documented, but new research on heavy-lifting ants reveals that the neck joint of a common American field ant can withstand pressures up to 5,000 times greater than its own body weight. Writing in the Journal of Biomechanics, entomologist Dan Crosfield and researchers from The Ohio State University said that the ant's strength far exceeded their initial estimates. "Ants are impressive mechanical systems - astounding, really," said Carlos Castro, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Ohio State. "Before we started, we made a somewhat conservative estimate that they might withstand 1,000 times their weight, and it turned out to be much more." While an ant carrying a huge leaf on top of its tiny frame provides sound analytical evidence that the insects can carry weight far in excess of their own, Castro and his colleagues reached their conclusions through a more mechanical approach: They took the ants apart. "As you would in any engineering system, if you want to understand how something works, you take it apart," Castro said. "That may sound kind of cruel in this case, but we did anesthetize them first." For the research Castro and his team chose the Allegheny mound ant (Formica exsectoides), a common ant not particularly know for its ability to lift. From there, the team essentially disassembled the ant, dismantling it into its component parts as if they were reverse-engineering it. The ant specimens were imaged with an electron microscope and a micro-CT scanner, then they were refrigerated to induce anesthesia before being glued into place on a specially designed centrifuge that measured the force necessary to deform the neck and eventually separate the head from the ant's body. The concept is similar to a spinning carnival ride where passengers are pinned to the wall of the ride by centrifugal force as the floor drops out from beneath them. "In the case of the ants, their heads were glued in place on the floor of the centrifuge, so that as it spun, the ants' bodies would be pulled outward until their necks ruptured," the university said in a statement. "The centrifuge spun up to hundreds of rotations per second, each increase in speed exerting more outward force on the ant. At forces corresponding to 350 times the ants' body weight, the neck joint began to stretch and the body lengthened. The ants' necks ruptured at forces of 3,400-5,000 times their average body weight." The researchers said they hope that their understanding of the mechanics of the ant's anatomy and its ability to withstand force will be of use in future robotics designs. https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5970/20140210/ants-support-5-000-times-body-weight-before-losing-heads.htm
2. “...yet they prepare their meat in the summer;”
a. [yet they] prepare [Strong: 3559 kuwn koon a primitive root; properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous):--certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.]
b. [their] meat [Strong: 3899 lechem lekh'-em from 3898; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it):--((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.]
c. [in the] summer [Strong: 7019 qayits kah'-yits from 6972; harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or the (dry) season:--summer (fruit, house).]
1). When the weather gets cold, ants seem to disappear and are excellent in the overwintering process. Ants will eat large amounts of food in the fall to prepare for the winter. They will enter a dormant stage, feeding off the fats, protein and carbs of the food they stored in the fall. When the temperatures drop, the body of an ant will become sluggish due to a drop in the ants’ body temperature. They will seek after warmth in places like deep soil, under rocks or under the bark of trees and huddle together until the warm weather returns.
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