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Gematria of Locust

4 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “locust” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 36 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
4
Occurrences
36
Distinct values
4

The 4 Hebrew words rendered “locust”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

אַרְבֶּהʼarbeh×24 in the TanakhH697

a locust (from its rapid increase)

Standard 208 →Gadol 208Katan 10Siduri (ordinal) 28Atbash 793Perati 40,030Milui 1,039

First appearance ·Exodus 10:4שמות י:דאַרְבֶּה

See all 14 occurrences of the spelling ארבה →

צְלָצַלtsᵉlâtsal×6 in the TanakhH6767

a clatter, i.e. (abstractly) whirring (of wings); (concretely) a cricket; also a harpoon (as rattling), a cymbal (as clanging)

Standard 240 →Gadol 240Katan 24Siduri (ordinal) 60Atbash 50Perati 18,000Milui 356

First appearance ·Deuteronomy 28:42דברים כח:מבהַצְּלָצַֽל

See the one occurrence of the spelling צלצל →

חָגָבchâgâb×5 in the TanakhH2284

a locust

Standard 13 →Gadol 13Katan 13Siduri (ordinal) 13Atbash 560Perati 77Milui 913

First appearance ·Leviticus 11:22ויקרא יא:כבהֶחָגָב

See all 2 occurrences of the spelling חגב →

גֵּבgêb×1 in the TanakhH1357

a locust (from its cutting)

Standard 5 →Gadol 5Katan 5Siduri (ordinal) 5Atbash 500Perati 13Milui 495

First appearance ·Isaiah 33:4ישעיהו לג:דגֵּבִים

See all 2 occurrences of the spelling גב →

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What is the gematria of locust?

The Tanakh renders “locust” with 4 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ארבה = 208, צלצל = 240, חגב = 13, and 1 more.

How do you say locust in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 4 Hebrew words for “locust”; the most frequent are ארבה (ʼarbeh), 24 times; צלצל (tsᵉlâtsal), 6 times; חגב (châgâb), 5 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.