chagav · grasshopper

What it means

chagav (חָגָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grasshopper”.

A small locust.

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 small leaping insect of the field.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grasshopper ×3
• like grasshoppers ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1

• 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.

• Numbers 13:33

  And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim); and we were in our own eyes like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.”

• 2 Chronicles 7:13

  If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people,

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street;

• Isaiah 40:22

  It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out like a thin veil the heavens, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;