yelek · young locust

What it means

yelek (יֶלֶק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “young locust”.

A young locust, at the stage when it does not yet fly and devours everything green. The name comes from the idea of "licking" or "devouring".

How to say it

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

1. A young locust, still wingless, that eats everything green.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• young locust ×6
• locusts ×3

Where it appears

• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Joel×3
• Nahum×3

• Psalms 105:34

  He spoke, and there came locusts, and young locusts, without number,

• Jeremiah 51:14

  YHWH Tsevaot has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with human beings as with locusts, and they will raise over you the shout.

• Jeremiah 51:27

  Lift up a banner in the land; blow the horn among the nations; consecrate nations against her; summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint against her an officer; bring up horses like bristling locusts.

• 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.

• Nahum 3:15

  There fire will devour you, the sword will cut you off; it will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourself like the young locust, multiply yourself like the locust.

• Nahum 3:16

  You have multiplied your traders more than the stars of the heavens; the young locust strips off and flies away.

And 2 more times.