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 famine shall be in the land, if there shall be death, blasting, yellowness, the locust devouring; if his enemy shall press upon him in the land of his gates, every blow, every sickness;
And he will give their produce to the devourer, and their labor to the locust
He said, and the locust will come and the feeder, and no number.
And your spoil was gathered the gathering of the locust: as the running about of locusts he ran to and fro upon it
Jehovah of armies sware by his soul: That if I filled thee with men as with locusts, and they struck up a shout against thee.
Lift up a signal in the earth, strike ye the trumpet in the nations, consecrate the nations against her, cause ye to be heard against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint over her a satrap; bring up the horse as the bristling locust
The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate.
And I requited to you the years which the common locust ate, the feeder, and the devourer, and the creeping locust, my great army which I sent among you.