Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H2625: חָסִיל

châçîyl · pronounced khaw-seel' · “locust”

Definition

the ravager, i.e. a locust

KJV translates it as: caterpillar.

Word origin: from H2628 (חָסַל);

Extended definition

locust

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H2625 is translated

  • locusts ×5
  • locust ×1

Bible verses with H2625 (châçîyl)

Châçîyl appears in 6 verses.

  • 1 Kings 8:37

    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;

  • 2 Chronicles 6:28

    If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

  • Psalms 78:46

    He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

  • Isaiah 33:4

    And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

  • Joel 1:4

    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.

  • Joel 2:25

    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.