Reference: Caterpiller
Morish
The word chasil signifies 'devourer,' hence the name of a species of locust. 1Ki 8:37; 2Ch 6:28; Ps 78:46; Isa 33:4; Joe 1:4; 2:25. In Ps 105:34; Jer 51:14,27 the word is yeleq, and is elsewhere translated CANKERWORM, q.v.
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"If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number,
and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.
The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.
"Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.