Locust
חָגָבStrong’s H2284chagav (cha-gav)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chagav is the Hebrew word usually translated “grasshopper” and “like grasshoppers”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Even 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.”
Meaning
- Locust, grasshopper
How it's translated
- the grasshopper 2
- like grasshoppers 2
- grasshopper 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
- 2 Chronicles 7:13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
- Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Isaiah 40:22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Hebrew dictionary
חָגָב chagav · locust
locust, grasshopper
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.