KJV dictionary & concordance
A large grasshopper-like insect that travels in swarms.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Exodus 10:19
Complete exact-word concordance
And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
And the LORD turned a mighty strong West wind, which tooke away the locusts, and cast them into the red sea: there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
1611 marginal noteHeb. fastened.
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Euen these of them ye may eate: the Locust, after his kinde, and the Bald-locust after his kinde, and the Beetle after his kinde, and the Grassehopper after his kinde.
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Thou shalt carie much seede out into the field, and shalt gather but litle in: for the locust shall consume it.
1611 marginal noteMica. 6.15. agge. 1.6.
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locusts consume.
1611 marginal noteOr, possesse
¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;
1611 marginal noteOr, iurisdiction.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
He gaue also their increase vnto the caterpiller: and their labour vnto the locust.
1611 marginal noteExod. 10.13.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.
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.
That which the palmer worme hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath the canker-worme eaten; and that which the canker-worme hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the residue of the palmer-worme.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
And I will restore to you the yeeres that the locust hath eaten, the canker worme, and the caterpiller, and the palmer worme, my great armie which I sent among you.
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