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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Grasshopper

ATS Bible Dictionary

Grasshopper

A kind of locust, and so called in 2 Chronicles 7:13. It was sometimes used for food, Le 11:22. Individually they are insignificant and timid creatures, Numbers 13:33, and their worthlessness furnishes a striking comparison in Isaiah 40:22; while the feebleness of age is expressed by inability to endure them, Ecclesiastes 12:5. Yet coming in great numbers, they are destructive to all herbage, Am 7:1. See LOCUST.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Belongs to the class of neuropterous insects called Gryllidae. This insect is not unknown in Palestine.

In Judges 6:5; 7:12; Job 39:30; Jeremiah 46:23, where the Authorized Version has "grasshopper," the Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (`arbeh) by "locust." This is the case also in Amos 7:1;Nahum 3:17, where the Hebrew word gob is used; and in Leviticus 11:22; Numbers 13:33; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Isaiah 40:22, where hagab is used. In all these instances the proper rendering is probably "locust" (q.v.).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.

2. (n.) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

GRASSHOPPER

gras'-hop-er.

See LOCUST.

Strong's Hebrew

2284. chagab -- locust, grasshopper
... 2283, 2284. chagab. 2285 . locust, grasshopper. Transliteration: chagab
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-gawb') Short Definition: grasshopper. ...
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697. arbeh -- (a kind of) locust
... grasshopper, locust. From rabah; a locust (from its rapid increase) -- grasshopper,
locust. see HEBREW rabah. 696, 697. arbeh. 698 . Strong's Numbers.
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2625. chasil -- (a kind of) locust
... 2624, 2625. chasil. 2626 . (a kind of) locust. Transliteration: chasil
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-seel') Short Definition: grasshopper. ...
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1462. gob -- locusts
... grasshopper, great. From guwb; the locust (from its grubbing as a larvae) --
grasshopper, X great. see HEBREW guwb. 1461, 1462. gob. 1463 . Strong's Numbers
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Library

Exhortation to Abandon the Impious Mysteries of Idolatry for the ...
... I might tell you also the story of another, a brother to these"the subject of a
myth, and a minstrel"Eunomos the Locrian and the Pythic grasshopper. ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter i exhortation to abandon the.htm

Satan's Banquet
... that look out of the windows shall be darkened, all the daughters of music shall
be brought low; then shall the strong man totter, the grasshopper shall be a ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/satans banquet.htm

Life as a Joy Shadowed by the Judgment
... And terrors shall be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the
grasshopper shall be a burden, And the caperberry shall burst: ...
/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/vii life as a joy.htm

The Conclusion of the Matter
... low; 5. Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be
in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the conclusion of the matter.htm

"The Gentle Steps of Age"
... But I bless God, "the grasshopper is" not "a burden." I am still capable of traveling,
and my memory is much the same as ever it was; and so, I think, is my ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/the gentle steps of age.htm

The Death of the Christian
... the aged man; tottering are his steps, "they that look out of the windows are darkened,
the grinders cease because they are few, and the grasshopper has become ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the death of the christian.htm

Two Ways of Seeing
... the ten? Do your trials and difficulties make you feel like a grasshopper?
Does it seem that you would surely be overwhelmed? Does ...
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A Cultivated Conservative Friend of Mine once Exhibited Great ...
... and one fancies every frantic reversal of proportions; the earwig striding across
the echoing plain like an elephant, or the grasshopper coming roaring above ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 42 a cultivated conservative.htm

The Care of the Soul Urged as the one Thing Needful
... It is needful for you that are advanced in years; though your strength be impaired
so that the "grasshopper is a burthen," Eccl.12:5, and though you have by ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the care of the soul.htm

The Fallacy of the Young Nation
... I certainly would much rather share my apartments with a gentleman who thought he
was God than with a gentleman who thought he was a grasshopper. ...
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Thesaurus

Grasshopper (12 Occurrences)
... In Judges 6:5; 7:12; Job 39:30; Jeremiah 46:23, where the Authorized Version has
"grasshopper," the Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word ...
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Caterpillar (6 Occurrences)
... er-pil-er (chacil (Psalm 78:46 Joel 1:4, etc.); yeleq (Psalm 105:34 the King James
Version, the American Standard Revised Version "grasshopper"; Jeremiah 51:14 ...
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Swarming (19 Occurrences)
... What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper
has left, the caterpillar has eaten. ... It will devour you like the grasshopper. ...
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Gnawing (4 Occurrences)
... eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the
grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. (See NAS). ...
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Stripping (4 Occurrences)
... eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the
grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. (See NAS). ...
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Locust (25 Occurrences)
... They are of many species. The ordinary Syrian locust resembles the grasshopper,
but is larger and more destructive. ... See Grasshopper. 2. (n.) The locust tree. ...
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Grasshoppers (11 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS). Nahum 3:15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. ...
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Swarm (26 Occurrences)
... What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper
has left, the caterpillar has eaten. (Root in WEB NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Creeping (43 Occurrences)
... What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper
has left, the caterpillar has eaten. ... It will devour you like the grasshopper. ...
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Hopper (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) See Grasshopper. 4. (n.) A game. ... 5. (n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper,
Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. ...
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Bible Concordance

Grasshopper (12 Occurrences)

Leviticus 11:22 Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
(See NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:28 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be;
(See NAS NIV)

Job 39:20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
(KJV WBS)

Psalms 78:46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
(See NAS NIV)

Psalms 105:34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
(Root in WEB ASV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 12:5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
(Root in KJV WBS YLT)

Joel 1:4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
(WEB)

Joel 2:25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
(WEB)

Nahum 3:15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Nahum 3:16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
(WEB)

Subtopics

Grasshopper

Grasshopper: General Scriptures Concerning

Related Terms

Caterpillar (6 Occurrences)

Swarming (19 Occurrences)

Gnawing (4 Occurrences)

Stripping (4 Occurrences)

Locust (25 Occurrences)

Grasshoppers (11 Occurrences)

Swarm (26 Occurrences)