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title: חָרְגֹּל — locust · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָרְגֹּל (2728), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: locust. BDB 1906: locust. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָרְגֹּל

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«חָרְגֹּל» 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2728 · **BDB:** חַרְגֹּל

### Glosses

locust (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

locust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2728/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

locust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2728/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of locust (NH id.; Aramaic ܚܰܪܓܳܠܴܐ חַרְגּוֹלָא حَرْجَلٌ (Dozy), all = locust; حَرْجَلَةٌ swarm of locusts (Frey))—only Lv 11:22 (P) in list of edible insects, ‖ אַרְבֶּה, סָלְעָם, חָגָב.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָרְגֹּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2728/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.22/)

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אֶת־אֵ֤לֶּה מֵהֶם֙ תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ אֶת־הָֽאַרְבֶּ֣ה לְמִינ֔וֹ וְאֶת־הַסָּלְעָ֖ם לְמִינֵ֑הוּ וְאֶת־הַחַרְגֹּ֣ל לְמִינֵ֔הוּ וְאֶת־הֶחָגָ֖ב לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* (et) these any of.them you.will.eat (et) the locust to kind its and (et) the locust to kind its and (et) the locust to kind its and (et) the grasshopper to kind its

*JPS 1917:* even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald locust after its kinds, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper after its kinds.

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