16 occurrences

'Locust' in the Bible

And Yahweh turned a very strong {west wind} and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the {Red Sea}, and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSeaWestWindMiracles Of Moses And AaronOut Of The WestOther References To The Red Sea

{From these} you may eat the locust according to its kind and the bald locust according to its kind and the cricket according to its kind and the grasshopper according to its kind.

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsGrasshoppersAccording To Its KindClean FoodKinds Of Living ThingsWeedbugs

"You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little [produce], for the locust shall devour it.

Verse ConceptsLocustsPlanting Seeds

If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease,

Verse ConceptsCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsMildewHelp In ShortageNations Attacking Israel

"If there is a famine in the land; if there is disease, blight, mildew, locust, and caterpillar; if it happens that his enemy lays siege to him in the land [and] his gates; any kind of plague, any kind of disease,

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsMildewHelp In Shortage

When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people,

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

Do you make it leap like the locust? [The] majesty of its snorting [is] terrifying.

Verse ConceptsNosesCreatures JumpingNeighing And Braying

Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.

Verse ConceptsShadowsTime Passing

there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank;

Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsNo King

And your spoil is gathered, [as] the gathering of the locust, as a swarm of locusts storming on it.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingHarvestCaterpillarsLocusts

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.

Verse ConceptsInsectsFamine, Causes OfCaterpillarsLocustsSuffering, Nature OfSymbolsDestruction Of PlantsGathering FoodRemaining Food

I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeCaterpillarsInsectsLocustsChangecancerlukewarmrehabilitationworms

"I struck you with blight and with mildew. Frequently the cutting locust devoured your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees, yet you did not return to me," [is] the declaration of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFig treeGarden, NaturalBlightHorticultureLocustsMildewOlivesDestroying VineyardsNot Returning To GodScorching

There fire will consume you; the sword will cut you off. It will consume you like the locust.

Verse ConceptsInsectsBurning People

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven; [like] the locust they will shed [their skin] and fly away.

Verse ConceptsTradeCommerceThings StrippedPeople MultiplyingThose Flying

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Locust (27 instances)
Prodigal (1 instance)

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