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Locust

6Greek/Hebrew entries

10stored occurrences

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Greek G200 akrís

Original: ἀκρίς

Meaning:
apparently from the same as ἄκρον; a locust (as pointed, or as lighting on the top of vegetation):--locust.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: a locust (as pointed, or as lighting on the top of vegetation):--locust.

Hebrew H697 ʼarbeh

Original: אַרְבֶּה

Meaning:
from רָבָה; a locust (from its rapid increase); grasshopper, locust.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: grasshopper, locust.

Hebrew H1357 gêb

Original: גֵּב

Meaning:
probably from גּוּב (compare גּוֹב); a locust (from its cutting); locust.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: locust.

Hebrew H2284 châgâb

Original: חָגָב

Meaning:
of uncertain derivation; a locust; locust.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: locust.

Hebrew H5556 çolʻâm

Original: סׇלְעָם

Meaning:
apparently from the same as סֶלַע in the sense of crushing as with a rock, i.e. consuming; a kind of locust (from its destructiveness); bald locust.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: bald locust.

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Hebrew H6767 tsᵉlâtsal

Original: צְלָצַל

Meaning:
from צָלַל reduplicated; a clatter, i.e. (abstractly) whirring (of wings); (concretely) a cricket; also a harpoon (as rattling), a cymbal (as clanging); cymbal, locust, shadowing, spear.

Verses containing this word showing 10 of 10

^{Exodus 10:14} And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. Open

^{Exodus 10:19} And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. Open

^{Leviticus 11:22} Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. Open

^{Deuteronomy 28:38} Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. Open

^{Deuteronomy 28:42} All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. Open

^{1 Kings 8:37} If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; Open

^{Psalm 78:46} He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. Open

^{Psalm 109:23} I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Open

^{Joel 1:4} That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. Open

^{Joel 2:25} And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. Open

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