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title: חָגָב — locust · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָגָב (2284), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: locust. BDB 1906: n.m. locust, grasshopper. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָגָב

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«חָגָב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **locust** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 2284 · **BDB:** חָגָב

### Glosses

grasshopper (2); grasshoppers (2); \[the\].grasshopper (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

locust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2284/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. locust, grasshopper [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2284/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 12:5 locust, grasshopper (NH id.; cf. 𝔗), prob. a non-flying species, v. Kn in Di Lv 11:22; הֶחָגָב allowed as food Lv 11:22 (P; ‖ אַרְבֶּה, סָלְעָם, חַרְגֹּל), כַּחֲגָבִים Nu 13:33 (JE; sim. of insignificance), so Is 40:22; as agent of Yahweh’s wrath חָגָב לֶאֱכוֹל חארץ 2 Ch 7:13; וְיִסְתַּבֵּל הֶחָגָב Ec 12:5 and the grasshopper shall be a burden; better shall stuff itself, grow fat (s. סבל); De thinks ח׳ here fig. of the back part of the pelvic cavity (Arabic حَجَبَةٌ is point of hip-bone, Bö, cf. Lane), and refers to stiffness of aged joints, so Now; but the meaning is dubious; v. other views in Comm.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָגָב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2284/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 13:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.33/)

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וְשָׁ֣ם רָאִ֗ינוּ אֶת־הַנְּפִילִ֛ים בְּנֵ֥י עֲנָ֖ק מִן־הַנְּפִלִ֑ים וַנְּהִ֤י בְעֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ כַּֽחֲגָבִ֔ים וְכֵ֥ן הָיִ֖ינוּ בְּעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and there we.saw (et) the Nephilim \[the\].descendants of.Anak \[were\].from the Nephilim and we.were in our.own eyes like grasshoppers and thus we.were in eyes their

*JPS 1917:* And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.'

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[2 Chronicles 7:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.13/)

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הֵ֣ן אֶֽעֱצֹ֤ר הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה מָטָ֔ר וְהֵן־אֲצַוֶּ֥ה עַל־חָגָ֖ב לֶאֱכ֣וֹל הָאָ֑רֶץ וְאִם־אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח דֶּ֖בֶר בְּעַמִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* here! I.will.shut.up the heavens and not it.will.be rain and here! I.will.command to \[the\].grasshopper to devour the land and if I.will.send pestilence among people my

*JPS 1917:* If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;

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