גָּזָם
gazam · cutting locust
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1501 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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gazam (גָּזָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cutting locust”.
"Gazam": a kind of locust that gnaws and cuts plants.
How to say it
ga·zam
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- An insect that gnaws crops, a kind of grasshopper.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Joel 1:4
What the cutting locust left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust left, the hopping locust has eaten.
- Joel 2:25
And I will repay you for the years that the locust has eaten, the young locust, and the hopping locust, and the cutting locust, my great army that I sent among you.
- Amos 4:9
I struck you with blight and with mildew; the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the cutting locust devoured; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.