# H3218 יֶלֶק

יֶלֶק (yeleq), Strong’s H3218: a devourer; specifically, the young locust KJV: cankerworm, caterpillar.. Occurs 9 times.

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*yeleq* — a devourer; specifically, the young locust

KJV: cankerworm, caterpillar.

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יֶ֫לֶק n.m. a kind of locust

## Where it occurs
- [Jeremiah 51:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=14) — The LORD of Hosts has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift…
- [Jeremiah 51:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=27) — “Set up a standard in the land! Blow the shofar among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together…
- [Joel 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/1?v=4) — What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has…
- [Joel 2:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=25) — I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the…
- [Nahum 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/3?v=15) — There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like…
- [Nahum 3:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/nahum/3?v=16) — You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
- [Psalms 105:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/105?v=34) — He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.