chasil · locust

What it means

chasil (חָסִיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “locust”.

A kind of locust, or the locust in one of its stages, that devours the crops.

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 kind of swarming insect that devours crops.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hopping locust ×3
• hopper ×2
• grasshopper ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Joel×2

• 1 Kings 8:37

  If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or grasshopper, if there are these; if his enemy besieges him in the land of his gates; any sore, any sickness;

• 2 Chronicles 6:28

  When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there are blight and mildew, locust and hopper; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; any sore and any sickness;

• Psalms 78:46

  And he gave to the hopper their produce, and their labor to the locust.

• Isaiah 33:4

  And your spoil is gathered as the hopping locust gathers; like the rushing of locusts they rush upon it.

• 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.