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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(biting animal). A species of
locust
is evidently meant (
Lev. 11:21-22
21
Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
22
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. (Leviticus 11:21‑22)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This
name
occurs but once in
the
list of insects which the Israelites were allowed to
eat
, and is generally held to be a species of
locust
(
Lev. 11:22
22
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. (Leviticus 11:22)
).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
2728
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
chargol
Phonic:
khar-gole’
Meaning:
from
2727
; the leaping insect, i.e. a locust
KJV Usage:
beetle