Chagav חָגָב
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| חָגָב | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | chagav |
| Strong's number | H2284 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | locust |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | Leviticus (1) |
Chagav (Hebrew חָגָב, Strong's H2284) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “locust”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
locust, grasshopper
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | grasshopper (2), grasshoppers (2), locusts (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | grasshopper (2), like grasshoppers (1), locust (1), are like grasshoppers (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Chagav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Leviticus
- Leviticus 11:22Even 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.Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Numbers
- Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.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
- 2 Chronicles 7:13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;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
- Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: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
- Isaiah 40:22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: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.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).