יֶלֶק
yeleq · H3218 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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a locust
A six-legged, winged insect with elongated hopping legs that moves in swarms and colonizes new areas, found primarily in poetic contexts and normally eaten cooked
ExamplesPsalm 105:34 He spoke, and locusts came, And creeping locusts, beyond number,
Jeremiah 51:14 The LORD of armies has sworn by Himself: “I will certainly fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”
Jeremiah 51:27 Lift up a signal flag in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; Appoint an officer against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סָמָרbristling locust 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חַיִלarmy, wealth, strength 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
- פָּשַׁטto strip off, to raid 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 8
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 2 words
- אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh · H697 · locust
- Both words denote destructive swarming insects, a cankerworm or caterpillar versus a grasshopper or locust, and function as near-synonyms in biblical contexts of plague and devastation.
- חָגָב châgâb · H2284 · locust
- Both lexemes denote insect pests, types of locusts or locust-like insects in biblical plague or agricultural contexts; despite different English glosses, these are near-synonyms referring to overlapping species or life stages within the broader locust category.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀκρίς akrís · G200 · grasshopper, locust
- Greek ἀκρίς (locust) renders Hebrew יֶלֶק (cankerworm/caterpillar) in LXX contexts where both denote agricultural plague insects; the pairing reflects translation practice treating overlapping destructive-insect categories as functionally equivalent despite distinct entomological referents.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3218. yeleq יֶ֫לֶק noun masculineNah 3:16 a kind of locust, absolute יֶלֶק Nah 3:16 Nah…
יֶ֫לֶק noun masculineNah 3:16 a kind of locust, absolute יֶלֶק Nah 3:16 Nah 3:5t.; יָ֑לֶק Joe 1:4 Joe 1:2t.; — always collective:
a. as devouring || חָסִיל אַרְבֶּה, גָּזָם,, Joe 1:4 (twice in verse); Joe 2:25; || אַרְבֶּה Psa 105:34 (of Egyptian plague), compare Nah 3:15 a (but strike out We).
b. in simile of multitude of men Nah 3:15b Jer 51:14; of horses Jer 51:27 (סָמָר יֶלֶק).
c. in simile of scattering and disappearing Nah 3:16.
יַלְקוּט see לקט.
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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