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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Beetle

[LOCUST]

ATS Bible Dictionary

Beetle

In Le 11:22, a species of locust.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Hebrews hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Leviticus 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four feet, "which has legs above its feet, to leap withal." The description plainly points to the locust (q.v.). This has been an article of food from the earliest times in the East to the present day. The word is rendered "cricket" in the Revised Version.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

2. (n.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.

3. (v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.

4. (v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

5. (v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.

6. (v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BEETLE

be'-t'-l (the Revised Version (British and American) CRICKET; chargol; See LOCUST): This name occurs only in Leviticus 11:22 as one of four winged Jumping insects (sherets ha-`oph) which may be eaten. It certainly is not a beetle and is probably not a cricket. Probably all four are names of locusts, of which more than 30 species have been described from Syria and Palestine, and for which there are at least 8 Arabic names in use, though with little distinction of species. Closely allied to chargol are the Arabic charjalet, a troop of horses or a flight of locusts, from charjal, "to gallop," and harjawan, "a wingless locust."

Alfred Ely Day

Strong's Hebrew

2728. chargol -- (a kind of) locust
... beetle. From charag; the leaping insect, ie A locust -- beetle. see HEBREW
charag. 2727, 2728. chargol. 2729 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/2728.htm - 6k

Library

Antipathies
... We cannot help it. You cannot expect us to like people who do not suit us:
any more than you can expect us to like a beetle or a spider. ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon xv antipathies.htm

Egypt.
... They thought that the great God lived among them in the shape of a bull with one
spot on his back like an eagle, and one on his tongue like a beetle; and this ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson iii egypt.htm

Divine Things Wrapped up in Figures Both in the Sacred and in ...
... For the rest of the stars, on account of their oblique course, they have figured
like the bodies of serpents; but the sun, like that of a beetle, because it ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iv divine things wrapped up.htm

Elucidations.
... Philo. But this of itself appears decisive as to Clement's Hebrew scholarship.
II. (The Beetle, cap. iv. p.449, [102]note 6.). Cicero ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/clement/the stromata or miscellanies/elucidations 5.htm

On the Animals
... [Is.2:20]. The beetle in the prophet: and the beetle will cry from the wood, so
I think, this means from the wood of the Lord {the cross}. [Hab.2:11]. ...
/.../eucherius/the formulae of st eucherius of lyons/iv on the animals.htm

The Martyr-Bishop, 1548-1560.
... Next, he must be strapped to a shutter, with his head hanging over one end; he must
have vinegar rubbed into his nostrils; he must have a beetle fastened on to ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter x the martyr-bishop 1548-1560.htm

On Mr. Mccabe and a Divine Frivolity
... If, you feel it to be reasonable that one beetle should be the only study of one
man, and that one man the only student of that one beetle, it is surely a very ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/xvi on mr mccabe and.htm

Clement of Alexandria.
... Beauty, true and false, 271. "Because of the angels," interpreted, 578. Beetle,
fable concerning, 449, 484. Birth and death, law of, 584. ...
/.../clement/who is the rich man that shall be saved/clement of alexandria.htm

The Immutability of God
... He may be a naturalist, boasting of his ability to dissect a beetle, anatomize a
fly, or arrange insects and animals in classes with well nigh unutterable names ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the immutability of god.htm

Three Afternoons Off the Track
... and betel. Betel (pronounced beetle) is the leaf of a climbing plant, into
which they roll a morsel of areca nut and lime. The whole ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter ii three afternoons off.htm

Thesaurus

Beetle (7 Occurrences)
... (Hebrews hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Leviticus 11:22,
where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly the beetle. ...BEETLE. ...
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Insects (17 Occurrences)
... the Bible, including the marginal notes, we find at least 23 names of insects or
words referring to them: ant, bald locust, bee, beetle, cankerworm, caterpillar ...
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Locust (25 Occurrences)
... Chargol (3), the King James Version "beetle," the Revised Version (British and American)
"cricket," being one of the leaping insects, cannot be a beetle. ...
/l/locust.htm - 34k

Entereth (40 Occurrences)
... Exodus 8:24 And Jehovah doth so, and the grievous beetle entereth the house of Pharaoh,
and the house of his servants, and in all the land of Egypt the land is ...
/e/entereth.htm - 18k

Beeves (6 Occurrences)

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Cricket (2 Occurrences)
... CRICKET. krik'-et (chargol): This occurs in Leviticus 11:22 (the King James Version
"beetle"), and doubtless refers to some kind of locust or grasshopper. ...
/c/cricket.htm - 7k

Sending (188 Occurrences)
... art not sending My people away, lo, I am sending against thee, and against thy servants,
and against thy people, and against thy houses, the beetle, and the ...
/s/sending.htm - 37k

Unicorn (6 Occurrences)
... Scriptures. 3. (n.) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the
head or prothorax. 4. (n.) The larva of a unicorn moth. ...
/u/unicorn.htm - 10k

Gaal (10 Occurrences)
... ga'-al (ga`al, "rejection," or "loathing"; according to Wellhausen, "beetle," HPN,
110): A man of whose antecedents nothing is known, except that his father's ...
/g/gaal.htm - 10k

Grub (2 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To supply with food. 5. (n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; --
called also grubworm. 6. (n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf. ...
/g/grub.htm - 7k

Bible Concordance

Beetle (7 Occurrences)

Exodus 8:21 for, if thou art not sending My people away, lo, I am sending against thee, and against thy servants, and against thy people, and against thy houses, the beetle, and the houses of the Egyptians have been full of the beetle, and also the ground on which they are.
(YLT)

Exodus 8:22 And I have separated in that day the land of Goshen, in which My people are staying, that the beetle is not there, so that thou knowest that I 'am' Jehovah in the midst of the land,
(YLT)

Exodus 8:24 And Jehovah doth so, and the grievous beetle entereth the house of Pharaoh, and the house of his servants, and in all the land of Egypt the land is corrupted from the presence of the beetle.
(YLT)

Exodus 8:31 and Jehovah doth according to the word of Moses, and turneth aside the beetle from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people -- there hath not been left one;
(YLT)

Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Psalms 78:45 He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them,
(YLT)

Psalms 105:31 He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Beetle

Beetle: Authorized As Food

Related Terms

Insects (17 Occurrences)

Locust (25 Occurrences)

Entereth (40 Occurrences)

Beeves (6 Occurrences)

Cricket (2 Occurrences)

Sending (188 Occurrences)