Locust in Wikipedia

Locust. - One of the worst scourges of the East, very often referred to in Bible. As many as nine Hebrew words signify either the locust in general or some species: (1) 'árbéh, probably the locusta migratoria; (2) gãzãm, possibly the locust in its larva state, the palmerworm; (3) Gôbh, the locust in general; (4) chagab, most likely the grasshopper; (5) hãsîl, "the destroyer", perhaps the locust in its hopper state, in which it is most destructive; (6) hárgõl, translated in the D.V. ophiomachus; (7) yéléq, the stinging locust; (8) çelãçâl possibly the cricket; and (9) sôl'ãm, rendered by attacus, or bald locust (probably the truxalis). Unlike other insects, locusts are most voracious in every stage of their existence.

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