חָגָב
cha.gav
“locust”
Definition
a locust
of uncertain derivation;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
חָגָב appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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,
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 homeand mourners walk the streets.
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.
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
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!”
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