Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
יֶלֶק
- Transliteration
- yeleq
- Pronunciation
- yeh'-lek
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 9
Glosses
cankerworm, caterpillar.
Lexicon definition
a devourer
specifically, the young locust
specifically, the young locust
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Cankerworm
(Heb. yelek), "the licking locust," which licks up the grass of the field; This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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H3218
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Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Cankerworm
(Heb. yelek), "the licking locust," which licks up the grass of the field; probably the locust at a certain stage of its growth, just as it emerges from the caterpillar state (Joel 1:4; 2:25). The word is rendered "caterpillar" in Ps. 105:34; Jer. 51:14, 17 (but R.V. "canker-worm"). "It spoileth and fleeth away" (Nah. 3:16), or as some read the passage, "The cankerworm putteth off [i.e., the envelope of its wings], and fleeth away."
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Nave's Topical Bible
CANKERWORM
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Nave’s Topical Bible references for CANKERWORM.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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CANKERWORM
Nave’s Topical Bible references for CANKERWORM.
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Cankerworm
(Heb. yelek), "the licking locust," which licks up the grass of the field; probably the locust at a certain stage of its growth, just as it emerges from the caterpillar state (Joel 1:4; 2:25). The word is rendered "caterpillar" in Ps. 105:34; Jer. 51:14, 17 (but R.V. "canker-worm"). "It spoileth and fleeth away" (Nah. 3:16), or as some read the passage, "The cankerworm putteth off [i.e., the envelope of its wings], and fleeth away."
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Caterpillar
The consumer. Used in the Old Testament (1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chr. 6:28; Ps. 78:46; Isa. 33:4) as the translation of a word (hasil) the root of which means "to devour" or "consume," and which is used also with reference to the locust in Deut. 28:38. It may have been a species of locust, or the name of one of the transformations through which the locust passes, locust-grub. It is also found (Ps. 105:34; Jer. 51:14, 27; R.V., "cankerworm") as the rendering of a different Hebrew word, yelek, a word elsewhere rendered "cankerworm" (q.v.), Joel 1:4; 2:25. (See [103]LOCUST.)
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1 Kings 1
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