Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H5556: סׇלְעָם

çolʻâm · pronounced sol-awm' · “locust”

Definition

a kind of locust (from its destructiveness)

KJV translates it as: bald locust.

Word origin: apparently from the same as H5553 (סֶלַע) in the sense of crushing as with a rock, i.e. consuming;

Extended definition

1) locust
1a) an edible winged locust

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How H5556 is translated

  • locust ×1

Bible verses with H5556 (çolʻâm)

Çolʻâm appears in 1 verse.

  • Leviticus 11:22

    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.