Lexicon :: Strong's H697 - 'arbê

“But if you refuse to let my people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

The LORD then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.”

Then the LORD changed the wind to a strong west[fn] wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

“You may eat these:

any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, and grasshopper.

“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to lay waste to it.

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

When there is famine in the land,

when there is pestilence,

when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper,

when their enemy besieges them

in the land and its cities,[fn]

when there is any plague or illness,

When there is famine in the land,

when there is pestilence,

when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper,

when their enemies besiege them

in the land and its cities,[fn][fn]

when there is any plague or illness,

Do you make him leap like a locust?

His proud snorting fills one with terror.

He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

He spoke, and locusts came —

young locusts without number.

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;

I am shaken off like a locust.

locusts have no king,

yet all of them march in ranks;

They will cut down her forest —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

though it is dense,

for they are more numerous than locusts;

they cannot be counted.

What the devouring locust has left,

the swarming locust has eaten;

what the swarming locust has left,

the young locust has eaten;

and what the young locust has left,

the destroying locust has eaten.

I will repay you for the years

that the swarming locust ate,

the young locust, the destroying locust,

and the devouring locust —

my great army that I sent against you.

The fire will devour you there;

the sword will cut you down.

It will devour you like the young locust.

Multiply yourselves like the young locust;

multiply like the swarming locust!

Your court officials are like the swarming locust,

and your scribes like clouds of locusts,

which settle on the walls on a cold day;

when the sun rises, they take off,

and no one knows where they are.