GREEK · G6700
βροῦχος
brouchos — grasshopper
grasshopper
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Grasshopper
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2284
חָגָב
cha.gav — locust
locust, grasshopper
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ἠχέτης
ēchetēs — sounding
clear-sounding, musical , (Aeschulus Tragicus):—;of the grasshopper, chirping , (Hesiod) (ML)
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μάντις
mantis — a clairvoyant
1. one who divines, a seer, prophet , (Homer), etc.:—;as feminine a prophetess , [variant datesTragica Adespota, (Thucydides) 2. metaphorically a diviner, foreboder , (Sophocles Tragicus) 3. a kind of grasshopper , (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) (ML)
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Belongs to the class of neuropterous insects called Gryllidae. This insect is not unknown in Palestine. In Judg. 6:5; 7:12; Job 39:30; Jer. 46:23, where the Authorized Version has “grasshopper,” the Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word (‘arbeh) by “locust.” This is the case also in Amos 7:1; Nah. 3:17, where the Hebrew word gob is used; and in Lev. 11:22; Num. 13:33; Eccl. 12:5; Isa. 40:22, where hagab is used. In all these instances the proper rendering is probably “locust” (q.v.).
Scripture references
Judges 6:5Judges 7:12Job 39:30Jeremiah 46:23Amos 7:1Nahum 3:17Leviticus 11:22Numbers 13:33Ecclesiastes 12:5Isaiah 40:22
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.