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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Famine -- when it is in the land; pestilence -- when it is; blasting, mildew, locust; caterpillar -- when it is; when its enemy hath distressed it in the land in its gates, any plague, any sickness, --
And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust.
And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.
Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee with men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against thee -- shouting.
Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.
What is left of the palmer-worm, eaten hath the locust, And what is left of the locust, Eaten hath the cankerworm, And what is left of the cankerworm, Eaten hath the caterpillar.
And I have recompensed to you the years That consume did the locust, the cankerworm, And the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, My great force that I did send against you.