Locust
אַרְבֶּהStrong’s H0697arbeh (ar-beh)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arbeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “locust”, “like locust” and “like the locust”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:”
Meaning
- A kind of locust, locust swarm (coll)
- (CLBL)sudden disappearance (fig.) · insignificance (fig.) · activity (fig.)
How it's translated
- the locust 8
- locust 6
- like locust 3
- to the locust 2
- like the locust 2
- for the locust 1
- a locust 1
- more than locust 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 5
- Psalms 3
- Judges 2
- Joel 2
- Nahum 2
- Leviticus 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 10:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
- Exodus 10:13And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Exodus 10:14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
- Exodus 10:19And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Leviticus 11:22Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
- Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Hebrew dictionary
אַרְבֶּה arbeh · locust
1) a kind of locust, locust swarm (coll) 2) (CLBL) 2a) sudden disappearance (fig.) 2b) insignificance (fig.) 2c) activity (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “locust” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LO'CUST, noun
[Latin locusta.]
An insect of the genus Gryllus. These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the S. of Asia as to devour every green thing, and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud.
All definitions and other forms of “locust”
LO'CUST, noun
A name of several plants and trees; as a species of Melianthus, and of Ceratonia.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.