Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3218
יֶלֶק
yeleqyeh'-lek
locust
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3218is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3218
a devourer; specifically, the young locust
The King James renders it: cankerworm, caterpillar.
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
yeleq is rendered "locust". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Joel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
Psalms 105:34וְ֝יֶ֗לֶק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like the locust3
- the locust3
- a locust1
- and locust1
- like a locust1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יֶלֶד | yeled | youth | Uses89 |
The words it stands beside
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- כַּיֶּ֔לֶק2
- הַיֶּ֔לֶק1
- הַיֶּ֖לֶק1
- הַיָּ֑לֶק1
- וְ֝יֶ֗לֶק1
- יֶ֥לֶק1
- כְּיֶ֥לֶק1
- כַּיָּ֑לֶק1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Psalms
one use
He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
- וְ֝יֶ֗לֶקveyelekconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and locust
Jeremiah
two uses
The 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.”
- כַּיֶּ֔לֶקkaiyelekpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
“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.
- כְּיֶ֥לֶקkeyelekpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a locust
Joel
three uses
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- הַיָּ֑לֶקhaiyalekthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
- הַיֶּ֔לֶקhaiyelekthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
- הַיֶּ֖לֶקhaiyelekthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the locust
Nahum
three uses
There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
- כַּיָּ֑לֶקkaiyalekpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
- כַּיֶּ֔לֶקkaiyelekpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the locust
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
- יֶ֥לֶקyeleknoun · masculine singulartagged: a locust
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.