חָגָב
châgâb · H2284 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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a locust
A type of migratory locust that consumes all vegetation, a swarming creature with wings and a clean animal which may be eaten, regarded as a small but destructive insect whose way of walking resembles that of an old man
ExamplesLeviticus 11:22 ‘These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, the devastating locust in its kinds, the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds.
Numbers 13:33 “We also saw the Nephilim there (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
2 Chronicles 7:13 “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
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
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סָבַלto carry 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 3
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
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 6 words
- גֵּב gêb · H1357 · pool, puddle, locust
- Both are glossed identically as "locust," two distinct Hebrew words for the same insect.
- גּוֹב gôwb · H1462 · locust
- Both denote closely related swarming insects—grasshopper and locust—terms often used interchangeably for the same kind of crop-destroying pest.
- גָּזָם gâzâm · H1501 · locust
- Both denote distinct types of crop-destroying insects—חָגָב (châgâb, H2284) locust, גָּזָם (gâzâm, H1501) palmerworm or caterpillar—overlapping in their shared, destructive swarming behavior.
- יֶלֶק yeleq · H3218 · locust
- Both denote insect pests associated with biblical plagues and agricultural devastation, referring to overlapping species or life-stages within the broader locust category despite their different English glosses.
- אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh · H697 · locust
- Both denote types of locust or grasshopper, referring to overlapping species within the same insect category.
- חָסִיל châçîyl · H2625 · young locust
- Though the English glosses "locust" and "caterpillar" suggest distinct species or life stages, both function as near-synonyms in Hebrew prophetic and poetic parallelism describing swarms of insects and crop devastation.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀκρίς akrís · G200 · grasshopper, locust
- Greek ἀκρίς is the standard translation equivalent of Hebrew חָגָב, both denoting the insect 'locust' in direct semantic correspondence across the Hebrew Bible and LXX.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Swarming Creatures001001002006
- חָגָב denotes the locust or grasshopper, a genuine swarming-insect sense illustrated among the permitted kinds of locust at Leviticus 11:22 and the devastating locust plague threatened at 2 Chronicles 7:13.
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent "Names of People" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence (Leviticus 11:22, Numbers 13:33, 2 Chronicles 7:13, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Isaiah 40:22) is the common noun for the locust/grasshopper, not a personal name. The domain is bundle-shared with an unrelated proper-name lexeme.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2284. chagab I. חָגָב noun masculineEcc 12:5 locust, grasshopper (Late Hebrew id.;…
I. חָגָב noun masculineEcc 12:5 locust, grasshopper (Late Hebrew id.; compare ᵑ7), probably a non-flying species, see Kn in DiLev 11:22; הֶחָגָב allowed as food Lev 11:22 (P; || חַרְגֹּל סָלְעָם, אַרְבֶּה,), כַּחֲגָבִיס Num 13:33 (J E; simile of insignificance), so Isa 40:22; as agent of Yahweh's wrath חארץ לֶאֱכוֺל חָגָב2Ch 7:13; הֶחָגָב וְיִסְתַּבֵּל Ecc 12:5 and the grasshopper shall be a burden; better shall drag itself along, De Hi Now RVm; De thinks ׳ח here figurative of the back part of the pelvic cavity (Arabic is point of hip-bone, Bo, compare Lane), and refers to stiffness of aged joints, so Now; but the meaning is dubious; see other views of Comm.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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