Joel 1:4
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
אַרְבֶּה
ʼarbeh
a locust (from its rapid increase)
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
אַרְבֶּה
ʼarbeh
a locust (from its rapid increase)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
יֶלֶק
yeleq
a devourer; specifically, the young locust
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
יֶלֶק
yeleq
a devourer; specifically, the young locust
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
Cross References
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, sai...
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sic...
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoe...
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against...
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
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