H2284 - חָגָב (châgâb)

H2284 חָגָב (châgâb) khaw-gawb'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

locust

Strong's Definition

a locust

Derivation: of uncertain derivation;

KJV Usage: locust.

TWOT Reference: 601a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) locust, grasshopper

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G200

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

locust, grasshopper

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חָגָב châgâb BDB Definition: 1) locust, grasshopper Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: of uncertain derivation Same Word by TWOT Number: 601a Total KJV Occurrences: 5

Bible Occurrences (5)

11:22

13:33

7:13

12:5

40:22

Leviticus 11:22

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid,... cricket,... or grasshopper....

Numbers 13:33

We even saw the Nephilim there— the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed... the same to them!

2 Chronicles 7:13

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command... the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

Ecclesiastes 12:5

[when] [men] fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels — for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

Isaiah 40:22

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.