גָּזָםgâzâm
locusts, (collective), always as devouring, devastating (Amos 4:9; Joel 1:4; Joel 2:25)
Pronunciation: gaw-zawm' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1501
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Joel 1:4 After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took what was left! After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!
- Joel 2:25 The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts. It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.
- Amos 4:9 “I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees. But still you would not return to me,” says the Lord.
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).