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# חָסִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2625

**locust** — used 6 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/1495/2625/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָסִיל: n.m. locust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2625/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a kind of locust (sg. coll.), always abs. ח׳, and always as destructive; 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28 ψ 78:46 (all ‖ אַרְבֶּה), Jo 1:4; 2:25 (‖ יָ֑לֶק, אַרְבֶּה, גָּוָם); cf. אֹסֶף הֶחָ׳ Is 33:4 the gathering of the locust, in sim. of despoiling of Assyria (‖ גֵּבִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: locust\[s\] (5); locust (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.46/#tree)

וַיִּתֵּ֣ן לֶחָסִ֣יל יְבוּלָ֑ם וִֽ֝יגִיעָ֗ם לָאַרְבֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.gave to the locust produce their and the.result of.their.toil to the locust

*JPS 1917:* He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.

[Isaiah 33:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.4/#tree)

וְאֻסַּ֣ף שְׁלַלְכֶ֔ם אֹ֖סֶף הֶֽחָסִ֑יל כְּמַשַּׁ֥ק גֵּבִ֖ים שׁוֹקֵ֥ק בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.gathered plunder your (the).gathering of.(the) locust\[s\] like.\[the\] rushing of.locusts \[someone.will.be\].rushing on it

*JPS 1917:* And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2625.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2625/): 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).