חָסִיל
châçîyl · H2625 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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young locust
Exact meaning unkown; probably: juvenile form of locust
Examples1 Kings 8:37 “If there is a famine in the land, if there is a plague, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy harasses them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
2 Chronicles 6:28 “If there is a famine in the land, if there is a plague, if there is blight or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,
Psalm 78:46 He also gave their crops to the grasshopper And the product of their labor to the locust.
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
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
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֹסֶףingathering 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 2 words
- גָּזָם gâzâm · H1501 · locust
- Both lexemes denote destructive, locust- or caterpillar-like insects associated with agricultural devastation.
- חָגָב châgâb · H2284 · locust
- Both lexemes denote types of destructive swarming insects referenced in agricultural/judgment contexts in the OT. Although the English glosses "locust" vs. "caterpillar" suggest distinct species or life stages, they function as near-synonyms in Hebrew prophetic and poetic parallelism describing swarms and crop devastation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Swarming Creatures001001002006
- The word denotes the caterpillar or locust larva, an insect pest listed among the devouring creatures that threaten crops.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2625. chasil חָסִיל noun masculine a kind of locust (singular collective) always…
חָסִיל noun masculine a kind of locust (singular collective) always absolute ׳ח, and always as destructive; 1Ki 8:37 2Ch 6:28; Psa 78:46 (all || אַרְבֶּה), Jos 1:4; Joshua 2:25 (|| גָּזָם אַרְבֶּה, יָ֑לֶק,); compare הֶחָ ׳אֹסֶף Isa 33:4 the gathering of the locust, in simile of despoiling of Assyria (|| גֵּבִים).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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