Strong H2284חָגָב

locust

Transliteration
châgâb
Pronunciation
khaw-gawb'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Of uncertain derivation; a locust: - locust.

Detailed definition

locust, grasshopper

In the Bible

Strong H2284 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • grasshopper4
  • locust1

First verses

  1. Leviticus 11:22
    Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
  2. Numbers 13:33
    And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
  3. 2 Chronicles 7:13
    If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
  4. Ecclesiastes 12:5
    Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
  5. Isaiah 40:22
    It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
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