Words the Bible translates as caterpillar
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- yeleqיֶלֶקa locust: one of the swarming, crop-stripping insects, sometimes taken to be the young, still wingless kind
- ḥasilחָסִילa crop-devouring locust, named for finishing a field off and leaving nothing behind
- gazamגָּזָםa crop-destroying locust, named for the way it shears vegetation off
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