{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3218",
  "lemma": "יֶלֶק",
  "transliteration": "yeleq",
  "definition": "a devourer; specifically, the young locust",
  "kjv": "cankerworm, caterpillar.",
  "occurrences": 9,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "יֶ֫לֶק n.m. a kind of locust"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 51:14",
      "text": "The LORD of Hosts has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 51:27",
      "text": "“Set up a standard in the land! Blow the shofar among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joel 1:4",
      "text": "What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/1?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joel 2:25",
      "text": "I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Nahum 3:15",
      "text": "There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/3?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Nahum 3:16",
      "text": "You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/3?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 105:34",
      "text": "He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/105?v=34"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3218",
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