Strong's Concordance
Original word: יָ֫לֶק
Transliteration: yeleq
Definition (short): locust
Definition (full): a devourer, the young locust
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: (a kind of) locust
NASB Translation: creeping locust (5), locust (1), locusts (2), young locusts (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
From an unused root meaning to lick up; a devourer; specifically, the young locust -- cankerworm, caterpillar.
References
KJV:
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
NASB:
He spoke, and locusts came, And young locusts, even without number,
KJV:
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
NASB:
The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you."
KJV:
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
NASB:
Lift up a signal in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz; Appoint a marshal against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
KJV:
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
NASB:
What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.