Locust
יֶ֫לֶקStrong’s H3218yeleq (ye-leq)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeleq is the Hebrew word usually translated “locust”, “like the locust” and “like locust”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,”
Meaning
- Young locust (early stage of development)caterpillar (as devouring)
How it's translated
- the locust 3
- like the locust 2
- and locust 1
- like locust 1
- like a locust 1
- a locust 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Joel 2
- Nahum 2
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 51:14The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
- Jeremiah 51:27Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
- 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.
- Nahum 3:15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
- Nahum 3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
Hebrew dictionary
יֶ֫לֶק yeleq · locust
1) young locust (early stage of development) 1a) caterpillar (as devouring)
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.