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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When there is famine in the land or pestilence or blasting or mildew or locusts or caterpillars, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
He gave also their fruits unto the caterpillar and their works unto the locust.
He spoke, and the locusts came and caterpillars without number,
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
The LORD of the hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they shall sing the song of the winepress against thee.
Set ye up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the Gentiles, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as raised up locusts.
That which the palmerworm has left the locust has eaten; and that which the locust has left the cankerworm has eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left the caterpillar has eaten.
And I will restore to you the years that the caterpillar has eaten, the locust, and the cankerworm, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.