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yeleq: (a kind of) locust
Original Word: יָ֫לֶק
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: yeleq
Phonetic Spelling: (yeh'-lek)
Short Definition: locust

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
(a kind of) locust
NASB Translation
creeping locust (5), locust (1), locusts (2), young locusts (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
יֶ֫לֶק noun masculineNahum 3:16 a kind of locust, absolute יֶלֶק Nahum 3:16 5t.; יָ֑לֶק Joel 1:4 2t.; — always collective:

a. as devouring "" גָּזָם, אַרְבֶּה, חָסִיל, Joel 1:4 (twice in verse); Joel 2:25; "" אַרְבֶּה Psalm 105:34 (of Egyptian plague), compare Nahum 3:15 a (but strike out We).

b. in simile of multitude of men Nahum 3:15b Jeremiah 51:14; of horses Jeremiah 51:27 (יֶלֶק סָמָר).

c. in simile of scattering and disappearing Nahum 3:16.

יַלְקוּט see לקט.



Strong's
cankerworm, caterpillar

From an unused root meaning to lick up; a devourer; specifically, the young locust -- cankerworm, caterpillar.

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