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# חָגָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2284

**locust** — used 5 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

locust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2284/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָגָב: n.m. locust, grasshopper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2284/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 12:5 locust, grasshopper (NH id.; cf. 𝔗), prob. a non-flying species, v. Kn in Di Lv 11:22; הֶחָגָב allowed as food Lv 11:22 (P; ‖ אַרְבֶּה, סָלְעָם, חַרְגֹּל), כַּחֲגָבִים Nu 13:33 (JE; sim. of insignificance), so Is 40:22; as agent of Yahweh’s wrath חָגָב לֶאֱכוֹל חארץ 2 Ch 7:13; וְיִסְתַּבֵּל הֶחָגָב Ec 12:5 and the grasshopper shall be a burden; better shall stuff itself, grow fat (s. סבל); De thinks ח׳ here fig. of the back part of the pelvic cavity (Arabic حَجَبَةٌ is point of hip-bone, Bö, cf. Lane), and refers to stiffness of aged joints, so Now; but the meaning is dubious; v. other views in Comm.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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: grasshopper (2); grasshoppers (2); \[the\] grasshopper (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 13:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.33/#tree)

וְשָׁ֣ם רָאִ֗ינוּ אֶת־הַנְּפִילִ֛ים בְּנֵ֥י עֲנָ֖ק מִן־הַנְּפִלִ֑ים וַנְּהִ֤י בְעֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ כַּֽחֲגָבִ֔ים וְכֵ֥ן הָיִ֖ינוּ בְּעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and there we.saw (et) the Nephilim \[the\].descendants of.Anak \[were\].from the Nephilim and we.were in our.own eyes like grasshoppers and thus we.were in eyes their

*JPS 1917:* And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.'

[2 Chronicles 7:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.13/#tree)

הֵ֣ן אֶֽעֱצֹ֤ר הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה מָטָ֔ר וְהֵן־אֲצַוֶּ֥ה עַל־חָגָ֖ב לֶאֱכ֣וֹל הָאָ֑רֶץ וְאִם־אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח דֶּ֖בֶר בְּעַמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* here! I.will.shut.up the heavens and not it.will.be rain and here! I.will.command to \[the\].grasshopper to devour the land and if I.will.send pestilence among people my

*JPS 1917:* If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2284.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2284/): 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).