βροῦχος
locust
Where this word appears
Every passage where βροῦχος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 11:22 βροῦχος And these of them you⌃ shall eat: the caterpillar and his like, and the attacus and his like, and the cantharus and his like, and the locust and his like.
- 1 Kings 8:37 βροῦχος If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if their enemy oppress them in any one of their cities, with regard to every calamity, every trouble,
- 2 Chronicles 6:28 βροῦχος If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a pestilent wind an blight; if there should be locust and caterpiller, and if the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and whatever distress they may be;
- Psalms 104:34 βροῦχος He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,
- Joel 1:4 βροῦχος The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
- Joel 1:4 βροῦχος The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
- Joel 2:25 βροῦχος And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even my great army, which I sent against you.
- Amos 7:1 βροῦχος Thus has the Lord God showed me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, king Gog.
- Nahum 3:15 βροῦχος There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall utterly destroy you, it shall devour you as the locust, and you shall be pressed down as a palmerworm.
- Nahum 3:16 βροῦχος You have multiplied your merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.
About this word
About this word
βροῦχος (broûchos), “locust,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 10 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
