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Rasshopper
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
or Numbers 13:33 (a) These spies felt weak and insignificant when they compared themselves with the giants and considered the power of these mighty men in Canaan.
Judges 7:12 (a) The invading hosts of the enemies of Israel are compared to an invading plague of grasshoppers. It is a picture of the quantity of the enemy, rather than the quality or character. (See Jeremiah 46:23).
Ecclesiastes 12:5 (b) The aged person cannot endure the slightest burden. To an ordinary person the grasshopper would hardly be noticed if it should alight on that person. It comes suddenly, and is gone quickly. It remains only a little time. So it is in the lives of the aged. A slight difficulty arises quickly, and is soon gone, but it seems to be a tremendous load to the old grandmother or grandfather. The mole hill becomes a mountain in the older days.
Isaiah 40:22 (a) By this figure the Lord is describing His thoughts about the people of the earth, whether they be prominent or obscure. None of them are very important in GOD's sight. They are small and insignificant when compared to the greatness and the power of GOD.
Nahum 3:17 (a) The great men of Nineveh flourished in times of prosperity and peace. Afterwards GOD saw that they were destroyed and their memory perished.
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Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Rasshopper'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wdt/r/rasshopper.html. 1957.
