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# סׇלְעָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5556

**locust** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

locust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5556/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָלְעָם: n.m. locust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5556/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. an edible, winged, locust (NH id.; swallower, consumer, cf. 𝔗 סַלְעֵם swallow up, destroy; Arabic سَلْغَفَ vb. swallow, Köii.1, 404);—Lv 11:22 (+ אַרְבֶּה, חַרְגֹּל, חָגָב).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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 (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 11:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.22/#tree)

אֶת־אֵ֤לֶּה מֵהֶם֙ תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ אֶת־הָֽאַרְבֶּ֣ה לְמִינ֔וֹ וְאֶת־הַסָּלְעָ֖ם לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וְאֶת־הַחַרְגֹּ֣ל לְמִינֵ֔הוּ וְאֶת־הֶחָגָ֖ב לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* (et) these any of.them you.will.eat (et) the locust to kind its and (et) the locust to kind its and (et) the locust to kind its and (et) the grasshopper to kind its

*JPS 1917:* even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald locust after its kinds, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper after its kinds.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5556.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5556/): 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).