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Blast

Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

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Comments: Migratory locust Locusta migratoria, Family: Acrididae, Location: Germany, Stuttgart, Zoological garden

 

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Comments: Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) laying eggs during the 1994 locust outbreak in Mauritania (photographed by Christiaan Kooyman).

 

Credit: Michel Lecoq

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Comments: Large swarm of the Migratory locust, Madagascar (author Michel Lecoq)

 

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Comments: Outbreak of desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) in southwestern Morocco in November 2004. Photo credit: Magnus Ullman

 

Blast certainly designates, Deuteronomy 28:42, a voracious insect; the Hebrew צְלָצַל tsəlātsal - Strongs: H6767, "chirping", suggests that the cricket was possibly meant and might be substituted for "blast." In Psalm 78:46, blast stands for חָסִיל hãsîl - Strongs: H2625, "the destroyer", perhaps the locust in its caterpillar state, in which it is most destructive.

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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​b/blast.html. 2024.