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# גָּזָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1501

**locusts** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

locusts [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1501/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּזָם: n.m. locusts [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1501/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Am 4:9 locusts (coll.)—abs. גָּזָם Jo 1:4; 2:25; Am 4:9;—always as devouring, devastating, Jo 1:4 (‖ אַרְבֶּה, יֶלֶק, חָסִיל), 2:25 (‖ id.); Am 4:9 alone: your gardens and your vineyards, and your fig-trees and your olive-trees יֹאכַל הַגָּזָם.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: locust (1); locust\[s\] (1); the locust\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.4/#tree)

יֶ֤תֶר הַגָּזָם֙ אָכַ֣ל הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה וְיֶ֥תֶר הָאַרְבֶּ֖ה אָכַ֣ל הַיָּ֑לֶק וְיֶ֣תֶר הַיֶּ֔לֶק אָכַ֖ל הֶחָסִֽיל׃

*Word for word:* the.remainder of the.locust\[s\] it.has.eaten the locust\[s\] and the.remainder of the.locust\[s\] it.has.eaten the locust\[s\] and the.remainder of the.locust\[s\] it.has.eaten the locust\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

[Joel 2:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.25/#tree)

וְשִׁלַּמְתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ אֶת־הַשָּׁנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר֙ אָכַ֣ל הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה הַיֶּ֖לֶק וְהֶחָסִ֣יל וְהַגָּזָ֑ם חֵילִי֙ הַגָּד֔וֹל אֲשֶׁ֥ר שִׁלַּ֖חְתִּי בָּכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.restore to you (et) the years which it.has.eaten the locust\[s\] the locust\[s\] and the locust\[s\] and the locust\[s\] army my (the) great which I.sent among you

*JPS 1917:* And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpiller, and the palmer-worm, My great army which I sent among you.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1501.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1501/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).