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Judges 6:5

For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.

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ASV

For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

KJV

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֡יkiforH3588 →
הֵם֩hemtheyH1992 →
וּמִקְנֵיהֶ֨םu.mik.nei.Hemand livestock theirH4735 →
יַעֲל֜וּya.'a.Luthey came upH5927 →
וְאָהֳלֵיהֶ֗םve.'o.ho.lei.Hemand tents theirH168 →
וּבָ֤אוּvu.ba'uand they cameH935 →
כְדֵֽי־khe.dei-according to [the] abundance ofH1767 →
אַרְבֶּה֙'ar.Behlocust[s]H697 →
לָרֹ֔בla.Rofor multitudeH7230 →
וְלָהֶ֥םve.la.Hemand [belonged] to them
וְלִגְמַלֵּיהֶ֖םve.lig.ma.lei.Hemand to camels theirH1581 →
אֵ֣ין'einnotH369 →
מִסְפָּ֑רmis.ParnumberH4557 →
וַיָּבֹ֥אוּvai.ya.Vo.'uand they cameH935 →
בָאָ֖רֶץva.'A.retzin the landH776 →
לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃le.sha.cha.Tahto destroy itH7843 →

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Judges 7:12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.Judges 8:10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.Isaiah 60:6Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.Jeremiah 49:29They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’Jeremiah 49:32Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.Isaiah 13:20She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.Jeremiah 46:23They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.1 Kings 20:27The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.Job 1:3and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.1 Samuel 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.Song of Solomon 1:5I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.Judges 8:21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.Psalms 83:4–12saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”Jeremiah 51:14The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”Jeremiah 51:27“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.2 Chronicles 12:3with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Genesis 41:49So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

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