Definition

a kind of locust (from its destructiveness)

Etymology

apparently from the same as H5553 (סֶלַע) in the sense of crushing as with a rock, i.e. consuming;

Where the KJV renders it

• bald locust

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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