Locust
סׇלְעָםStrong’s H5556solam (sol-am)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Solam is the Hebrew word usually translated “locust”. It appears in 1 verse 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
- Locustan edible winged locust
How it's translated
- the locust 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
סׇלְעָם solam · locust
1) locust 1a) an edible winged 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.