Strong H14622 sensesגּוֹב

locust

Transliteration
gôb
Pronunciation
gobe

The 2 senses of Strong H1462

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H1462 appears in 2 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. locusts, symbol of Yahweh's judgment on Isr.; in sim. of disappearance of Assyrian leaders at destruction of NinevehגֹּבַיH1462B1 verse · Amos
  2. locustsH1462ANot in the KJV

General definition

From H1461; the locust (from its grubbing as a larve): - {grasshopper} X great.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • grasshopper2

First verses

  1. Amos 7:1
    Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
  2. Nahum 3:17
    Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.