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Leviticus 11

Lev. 11:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Even these of them ye may eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
n; the locust
'arbeh (Hebrew #697)
a locust (from its rapid increase)
KJV usage: grasshopper, locust.
Pronounce: ar-beh'
Origin: from 7235
after his kind
miyn (Hebrew #4327)
a sort, i.e. species
KJV usage: kind. Compare 4480.
Pronounce: meen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to portion out
, and the bald locust
col`am (Hebrew #5556)
a kind of locust (from its destructiveness)
KJV usage: bald locust.
Pronounce: sol-awm'
Origin: apparently from the same as 5553 in the sense of crushing as with a rock, i.e. consuming
after his kind
miyn (Hebrew #4327)
a sort, i.e. species
KJV usage: kind. Compare 4480.
Pronounce: meen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to portion out
, and the beetle
chargol (Hebrew #2728)
the leaping insect, i.e. a locust
KJV usage: beetle.
Pronounce: khar-gole'
Origin: from 2727
after his kind
miyn (Hebrew #4327)
a sort, i.e. species
KJV usage: kind. Compare 4480.
Pronounce: meen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to portion out
, and the grasshopper
chagab (Hebrew #2284)
a locust
KJV usage: locust.
Pronounce: khaw-gawb'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
after his kind
miyn (Hebrew #4327)
a sort, i.e. species
KJV usage: kind. Compare 4480.
Pronounce: meen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to portion out
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Matt. 3:4• 4And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Matt. 3:4)
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Mark 1:6• 6And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; (Mark 1:6)

More on:

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Bald Locust,
Beetle,
Grasshopper,
locust

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ex. 10:4‑5• 4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
 5And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: (Ex. 10:4‑5)
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Isa. 35:3• 3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. (Isa. 35:3)
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Matt. 3:4• 4And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Matt. 3:4)
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Mark 1:6• 6And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; (Mark 1:6)
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Rom. 14:1• 1Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. (Rom. 14:1)
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Rom. 15:1• 1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. (Rom. 15:1)
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Heb. 5:11• 11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. (Heb. 5:11)
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Heb. 12:12‑13• 12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
 13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. (Heb. 12:12‑13)
• But there is no doubt whatever that the locust is edible, whatever the Palestinians dreamed in their effort to substitute the fruit of the carob-tree. They have been and are esteemed a delicacy in the East. (“Priesthood 17. Winged Reptiles: Leviticus 11:20-25” by W. Kelly)
• We may assuredly dismiss from ver. 22 “the beetle” of the A.V. and “the cricket” of the R.V. The coleoptera are not to be mixed up with the orthoptera saltatoria. Nor is “locust” and “bald locust” a satisfactory specification, if there be good ground to believe that all the four here named are varieties of locust, which we do not know enough to distinguish with confidence. Hence, as in not a few cases through the O. T., it seems safer to retain the Hebrew terms. The first “arbeh” is the more ordinary appellative derived from its great numbers (compare Jer. 46:23); the second, from its voracity, for it means “devourer “; the third, from its leaping, for it is equivalent to “hopper “; as the last seems called from its veiling the sun's light. All this is all we have for defining the species. (“Priesthood 17. Winged Reptiles: Leviticus 11:20-25” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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These shall ye eat of them: the arbeh after its kind, and the solam after its kind, and the hargol after its kind, and the hargab after its kinde.

JND Translation Notes

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Four different kinds of locust.

W. Kelly Translation

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These shall ye eat of them: the arbeha after its kind, and the salam after its kind, and the chargol after its kind, and the chagab after its kind.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, locust.