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Bible Dictionaries
Locust
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Locust — One of the worst scourges of the East, very often referred to in Bible. As many as nine Hebrew words signify either the locust in general or some species:
- 'árbéh - Strongs: H697, probably the locusta migratoria;
- gãzãm - Strongs: H1501, possibly the locust in its larva state, the palmerworm;
- Gôbh - Strongs: H1462, the locust in general;
- chagab - Strongs: H2284, most likely the grasshopper;
- hãsîl - Strongs: H2625, "the destroyer", perhaps the locust in its hopper state, in which it is most destructive;
- hárgõl - Strongs: H2728, translated in the D.V. as ophiomachus;
- yéléq - Strongs: H3218, the stinging locust;
- çelãçâl - Strongs: H6767 possibly the cricket; and
- sôl'ãm - Strongs: H5556, rendered by attacus, or bald locust (probably the truxalis).
Unlike other insects, locusts are most voracious in every stage of their existence.
Verses:
- Exodus 10:4
- Exodus 10:12
- Exodus 10:13
- Exodus 10:14
- Exodus 10:19
- Leviticus 11:22
- Numbers 13:33
- Deuteronomy 28:38
- Deuteronomy 28:42
- Judges 6:5
- Judges 7:12
- 1 Kings 8:37
- 2 Chronicles 6:28
- 2 Chronicles 7:13
- Job 39:20
- Psalms 78:46
- Psalms 105:34
- Psalms 109:23
- Proverbs 30:27
- Ecclesiastes 12:5
- Isaiah 33:4
- Isaiah 40:22
- Jeremiah 46:23
- Jeremiah 51:14
- Jeremiah 51:27
- Joel 1:4
- Joel 2:25
- Amos 4:9
- Amos 7:1
- Nahum 3:15
- Nahum 3:16
- Nahum 3:17
- Matthew 3:4
- Mark 1:6
- Revelation 9:3
- Revelation 9:7
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