Lexicon chagab: locust, grasshopper Original Word: חָגָבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: chagab Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-gawb') Short Definition: grasshopper NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionlocust, grasshopper NASB Translationgrasshopper (2), grasshoppers (2), locust (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. חָגָב noun masculineEcclesiastes 12:5 locust, grasshopper (Late Hebrew id.; compare ᵑ7), probably a non-flying species, see Kn in Di Leviticus 11:22; הֶחָגָב allowed as food Leviticus 11:22 (P; "" אַרְבֶּה, סָלְעָם, חַרְגֹּל), כַּחֲגָבִיס Numbers 13:33 (J E; simile of insignificance), so Isaiah 40:22; as agent of Yahweh's wrath חָגָב לֶאֱכוֺל חארץ2Chronicles 7:13; וְיִסְתַּבֵּל הֶחָגָב Ecclesiastes 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. Strong's locust Of uncertain derivation; a locust -- locust. |
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