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Locust
Locust are associated with cankerworm, caterpillar, grasshoppers, palmerworm,
We see numerous occurrences of the word locust in the Bible.
Cankerworm
Nahum 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm[1]: make thyself many as the cankerworm[1], make thyself many as the locusts[2].
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm[1] spoileth, and flieth away.
17 Thy crowned are as the locusts[2], and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Nahum 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm[1]: make thyself many as the cankerworm[1], make thyself many as the locusts.16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm[1] spoileth, and flieth away.
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm <03218>, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Caterpillers
But as caterpillers in Psalms 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalms 105:34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers <03218>, and that without number,
Jer 51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers <03218>; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
Jer 51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers <03218>.
Isa 33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Palmerworm
Amos 4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm[3] devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Joel 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm <03218> eaten; and that which the cankerworm <03218> hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 03218 ^קלי^ yekeq \@yeh’- lek\@ from an unused root meaning to lick up; n m; {See TWOT on 870 @@ "870a"} AV-cankerworm 6, caterpillar 3; 9
- 1) young locust (early stage of development)
- 1a) caterpillar (as devouring)
- 1) young locust (early stage of development)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 0697 ^הברא^ ‘arbeh \@ar-beh’\@ AlefReshBeitHey said to be from רָבָה rabah ReshBeitHey 07235 which means "be or become great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous"; n m; {See TWOT on 2103 @@ "2103a"} AV-locust 20, grasshopper 4; 24 a.k.a. the swarming locust
- 1) a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll)
- 2) (CLBL)
- 2a) sudden disappearance (fig.)
- 2b) insignificance (fig.)
- 2c) activity (fig.)
- Note:
- ↑ 01501 ^םזג^ GimelZayinMem gazam \@gaw-zawm’\@ from an unused root meaning to devour; n m coll; {See TWOT on 338 @@ "338a"} AV-palmerworm 3; 3 a.k.a. the chewing locust
- 1) locusts
- Another word for Locust. ^הברא^ ‘arbeh 0697 from הבר rabah 07235 meaning multiply "become many"
- GimelZayinZayin 01494 and 01495 means to shear.
- GimelZayinLamed 01497AV-spoil 8, take away 8, rob 4, pluck 3, caught 1, consume 1, exercised 1, force 1, pluck off 1, torn 1, violence 1; 30. means to tear away, seize, plunder, tear off, pull off, rob, take away by force
- GimelZayinLamedHey 01500 AV-violence 3, robbed 1, that 1, spoil 1; 6. means 1) plunder, spoil, robbery