hebrew #3218 - יֶלֶק yeleq ((a kind of) locust)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From an unused root meaning to lick up; a devourer; specifically, the young locust -- cankerworm, caterpillar.

Englishman's Concordance

Brown-Driver-Briggs

a.as devouring "" גָּזָם, אַרְבֶּה, חָסִיל, Joel 1:4 (twice in verse); Joel 2:25; "" אַרְבֶּהPsalm 105:34 (of Egyptian plague), compare Nahum 3:15 a (but strike out We).

b. in simile of multitude of men Nahum 3:15b Jeremiah 51:14; of horses Jeremiah 51:27 (יֶלֶק סָמָר).

c. in simile of scattering and disappearing Nahum 3:16.

יַלְקוּט see לקט.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3218. יָ֫לֶק (yeleq) — 9 Occurrences

Psalm 105:34
HEB:וַיָּבֹ֣א אַרְבֶּ֑ה וְ֝יֶ֗לֶק וְאֵ֣ין מִסְפָּֽר׃
NAS: came, And young locusts, even without
KJV: came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
INT: came and locusts and young without number

Jeremiah 51:14
HEB:מִלֵּאתִ֤יךְ אָדָם֙ כַּיֶּ֔לֶק וְעָנ֥וּ עָלַ֖יִךְ
NAS: you with a population like locusts, And they will cry
KJV: thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up
INT: will fill A population locusts up over

Jeremiah 51:27
HEB:הַֽעֲלוּ־ ס֖וּס כְּיֶ֥לֶק סָמָֽר׃
NAS: up the horses like bristly locusts.
KJV: to come up as the rough caterpillers.
INT: her Bring the horses locusts bristly

Joel 1:4
HEB:הָאַרְבֶּ֖ה אָכַ֣ל הַיָּ֑לֶק וְיֶ֣תֶר הַיֶּ֔לֶק
NAS: has left, the creeping locust
KJV: hath left hath the cankerworm eaten;
INT: locust has eaten the creeping and what locust

Joel 1:4
HEB:הַיָּ֑לֶק וְיֶ֣תֶר הַיֶּ֔לֶק אָכַ֖ל הֶחָסִֽיל׃
NAS: the creeping locust has eaten;
KJV: eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left
INT: the creeping and what locust has eaten the stripping

Joel 2:25
HEB:אָכַ֣ל הָֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה הַיֶּ֖לֶק וְהֶחָסִ֣יל וְהַגָּזָ֑ם
NAS: has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust
KJV: hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller,
INT: has eaten the swarming the creeping the stripping and the gnawing

Nahum 3:15
HEB:חֶ֔רֶב תֹּאכְלֵ֖ךְ כַּיָּ֑לֶק הִתְכַּבֵּ֣ד כַּיֶּ֔לֶק
NAS: It will consume you as the locust [does]. Multiply
KJV: it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many
INT: the sword will consume as the locust Multiply the creeping

Nahum 3:15
HEB:כַּיָּ֑לֶק הִתְכַּבֵּ֣ד כַּיֶּ֔לֶק הִֽתְכַּבְּדִ֖י כָּאַרְבֶּֽה׃
NAS: [does]. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply
KJV: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many
INT: as the locust Multiply the creeping Multiply the swarming

Nahum 3:16
HEB:מִכּוֹכְבֵ֖י הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם יֶ֥לֶק פָּשַׁ֖ט וַיָּעֹֽף׃
NAS: of heaven-- The creeping locust strips
KJV: of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth,
INT: the stars of heaven the cankerworm strips and flies