Locust
גּוֹבStrong’s H1462gov
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gov is the Hebrew word usually translated “locusts” and “like a locust of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.”
Meaning
- Locusts
How it's translated
- locusts 2
- like a locust of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 1
- Nahum 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
גּוֹב gov · locust
locusts Another spelling of gi.vay (גֹּבַי "locust" H1462B)
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.