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# יֶלֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3218

**locust** — used 9 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/1497/3218/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֶ֫לֶק: n.m. locust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3218/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Na 3:16 a kind of locust, abs. יֶלֶק Na 3:16 + 5 times; יָ֑לֶק Jo 1:4 + 2 times;—always coll.: as devouring ‖ גָּזָם, אַרְבֶּה, חָסִיל, Jo 1:4(×2) 2:25; ‖ אַרְבֶּה ψ 105:34 (of Egyptian plague), cf. Na 3:15a (but del. We). in sim. of multitude of men Na 3:15b Je 51:14; of horses v 27 (יֶלֶק סָמָר). in sim. of scattering and disappearing Na 3:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: locust\[s\] (7); a locust (1); the locust\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.34/#tree)

אָ֭מַר וַיָּבֹ֣א אַרְבֶּ֑ה וְ֝יֶ֗לֶק וְאֵ֣ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.spoke and it.came locust\[s\] and locust\[s\] and there.\[was\].not a.number

*JPS 1917:* He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number,

[Nahum 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.16/#tree)

הִרְבֵּית֙ רֹֽכְלַ֔יִךְ מִכּוֹכְבֵ֖י הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם יֶ֥לֶק פָּשַׁ֖ט וַיָּעֹֽף׃

*Word for word:* you.have.increased traders your more than.the.stars of the.heavens a.locust it.strips.off and it.flew.away

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3218.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3218/): 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).