גּוֹבgôwb
גּוֺב: locusts, compare גֹּבַי (Nahum 3:17)
Pronunciation: gobe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1462
Meanings
גֹּבַי: locusts (Amos 7:1; Nahum 3:17)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Amos 7:1 The Sovereign Lord showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king’s share had been harvested from the fields and as the main crop was coming up.
- Nahum 3:17 Your guards and officials are also like swarming locusts that crowd together in the hedges on a cold day. But like locusts that fly away when the sun comes up, all of them will fly away and disappear.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).