סׇלְעָם
slam · locust (kind)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5556 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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slam (סׇלְעָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “locust (kind)”.
A kind of edible locust or grasshopper.
How to say it
slam
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
- A kind of winged grasshopper the law allowed as food.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Leviticus 11:22
These of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.