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 be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, 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 the rough caterpillers.
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.