Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2284
חָגָב
chagabkhaw-gawb'
locust
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châgâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2284is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2284
a locust
The King James renders it: locust.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chagab is rendered "locust". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:22Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Leviticus 11:22הֶחָגָ֖ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in five of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like grasshoppers2
- the grasshopper2
- grasshopper1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָגָא | chaga | terror | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הֶחָגָ֖ב1
- הֶֽחָגָ֔ב1
- חָגָ֖ב1
- כַּֽחֲגָבִ֔ים1
- כַּחֲגָבִ֑ים1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Leviticus
one use
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
- הֶחָגָ֖בhechagavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the grasshopper
Numbers
one use
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
- כַּֽחֲגָבִ֔יםkachagavimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like grasshoppers
2 Chronicles
one use
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
- חָגָ֖בchagavnoun · masculine singulartagged: grasshopper
Ecclesiastes
one use
when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
- הֶֽחָגָ֔בhechagavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the grasshopper
Isaiah
one use
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
- כַּחֲגָבִ֑יםkachagavimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like grasshoppers
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.