Word

גָּזָם

gâzâm · H1501 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Thing

Locust, grasshopper, cricketInsects, spiders, and worms40 verses

Meanings

locust

Six-legged, winged insect that is characterized by the fact that its third pair of legs is elongated and adapted to hopping; insects of this type move in swarms at certain periods and migrate to new areas, which they colonize; at other times they live either solitary or in small groups; Acrididae family; normally eaten cooked by toasting, grilling, frying, or broiling, though in some places they are also eaten raw; clean animal, that may be eaten

Examples
Joel 1:4 What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.
Joel 2:25 “Then I will compensate you for the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust— My great army which I sent among you.
Amos 4:9 “I struck you with scorching wind and mildew; The caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חַיִלarmy, wealth, strength 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אָכַלto eat, to devour 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יֶתֶרremainder 1

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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Near synonyms 4 words

גּוֹב gôwb · H1462 · locust: Both lexemes denote distinct species/types of swarming insects that may overlap functionally (agricultural pests, locust-like creatures), making them plausible near synonyms in context.
חָסִיל châçîyl · H2625 · young locust: Both lexemes denote destructive locust- or caterpillar-like insects — genuine same-language near-synonyms for similar larval or insect pests that could substitute for one another in overlapping contexts of agricultural destruction.
חָגָב châgâb · H2284 · locust: Both words denote types of crop-destroying insects, a palmer-worm or caterpillar in one case and a locust in the other, sharing destructive swarming behavior.
גֵּב gêb · H1357 · pool, puddle, locust: Both words are Hebrew terms for specific locust or insect types that swarm and destroy crops; the attestation of both terms is slight.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Swarming Creatures001001002006: גָּזָם denotes a locust-type insect, the gnawing locust, as in Joel 1:4 and 2:25's list of successive locust plagues and Amos 4:9's devouring caterpillar.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1501. gazam גָּזָם noun masculineAmo 4:9 locusts (collective) — absolute גָּזָם Joe 1:4;…

H1501. gazam
גָּזָם noun masculineAmo 4:9 locusts (collective) — absolute גָּזָם Joe 1:4; Joe 2:25; Amo 4:9; — always as devouring, devastating, Joe 1:4 (|| חָסִיל יֶלֶק, אַרְבֶּה,) Joe 2:25 (|| id.); Amo 4:9 alone: your gardens and your vineyards, and your fig-tres and your olive-trees הַגָּזָם יאֹכַל.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Swarming Creatures3 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