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01462 גּוֹב‎ GimelVavBeit gowb [gobe] from 01461 husbandman; n m coll; [BDB-146b] [{See TWOT on 304 @@ "304b" }] AV-grasshopper 2; 2

1) locusts

• How is a word that means a husbandman become a locust or grasshopper.
• Amos 7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers <01462> in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
• It appears in two forms כְּג֣וֹב גֹּבָ֑י Nahum 3:17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers <01462>, 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].
• Other words for grasshopper are 02284, 0697,