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ἀκρίς

akrís · G200 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. grasshopper, locust

    Six-legged winged insect characterized by the fact that its third pair of legs is elongated and adapted to hopping; Acrididae family; moves in swarms that migrate to new areas, which they colonize; at other times lives solitary or in small groups; eaten cooked by toasting, grilling, frying, or broiling, though in some places they are also eaten raw; because of their large numbers and swarming characteristics, locusts were a symbol of a vast attacking army against which there was no defense and also a symbol of divine punishment

    Examples

    Matthew 3:4 Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

    Mark 1:6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 3 words
אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh · H697 · locust
Direct translation equivalent: Greek ἀκρίς corresponds to Hebrew אַרְבֶּה as the standard rendering for 'locust' in LXX contexts, denoting the same species of swarming grasshopper prominent in plague and judgment imagery.
חָגָב châgâb · H2284 · locust
Hebrew חָגָב (châgâb, H2284) and Greek ἀκρίς (akrís, G200) are direct translation equivalents denoting the insect 'locust,' with LXX alignment data confirming the Greek term renders the Hebrew in contexts describing literal locusts.
יֶלֶק yeleq · H3218 · locust
Hebrew יֶלֶק (yeleq, H3218) (cankerworm/caterpillar) is rendered by Greek ἀκρίς (akrís, G200) (locust) in LXX contexts where both terms denote devastating swarming insects in agricultural judgment passages, reflecting overlapping semantic domains of crop-destroying pests rather than strict entomological precision.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Grasshopper, locust4.47
In Matthew 3:4, John the Baptist's “food was locusts (akrídes) and wild honey,” naming the literal insect that formed part of his wilderness diet.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ίδος, ἡ (from Homer down), a locust, particularly that species which especially infests…
(ίδος, ἡ (from Homer down), a locust, particularly that species which especially infests oriental countries, stripping fields and trees. Numberless swarms of them almost every spring are carried by the wind from Arabia into Palestine, and having devastated that country migrate to regions farther north, until they perish by falling into the sea. The Orientals are accustomed to feed upon locusts, either raw or roasted and seasoned with salt (or prepared in other ways), and the Israelites also (according to Lev 11:22) were permitted to eat them; (cf. Winers RWB under the word Heuschrecken; Furrer in Schenkel iii., p. 78f; (BB. DD., under the word; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 313ff)): Mt 3:4; Mk 1:6. A marvelous and infernal kind of locusts is described in Rev 9:3, Rev 9:7, cf. Rev 9:2, Rev 9:5f, 8-12; see Dusterdieck at the passage.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Insects4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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