Locust
חָסִילStrong’s H2625chasil (cha-sil)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chasil is the Hebrew word usually translated “locust”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;”
Meaning
- Locust
How it's translated
- locust 2
- and locust 1
- to the locust 1
- the locust 1
- and the locust 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 6:28If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
- Psalms 78:46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
- Isaiah 33:4And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
- Joel 1:4That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
- Joel 2:25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Hebrew dictionary
חָסִיל chasil · locust
locust
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.