Word Study · Strong's H1462 · Hebrew
גּוֹב
gob
gobe
Strong's 1890 spelling: gôwb
“the locust (from its grubbing as a larvae)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
the locust (from its grubbing as a larvae)
Rendered in the KJV as
grasshopper, [idiom] great.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- גֹּבַ֔י1
- גֹּבָ֑י1
- כְּג֣וֹב1
How it is rendered · 2
- locusts2
- [are] like a locust of1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine singular2
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
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- HNcmsa · 2
- HR/Ncmsc · 1
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Nahum2 occurrences
- Nahum 3:17כְּג֣וֹבkegovpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.here: [are] like a locust of
- Nahum 3:17גֹּבָ֑יgoyainoun · masculine singularYour guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.here: locusts