Psalms 78:46 (KJV)

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He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the locust
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gave also. Ps 105:34 Ps 105:35 Ex 10:12-15 Joe 1:4-7 Joe 2:25 Am 7:1 Am 7:2 Re 9:2-11

the caterpillar.{Chosal,} from {chasal,} to consume, eat up, is rendered [\~broucov\~, brouchos] by the LXX., in 2 Ch 6:28, and Aquila here, and also the Vulgate in Chron. and Isa 33:4 and Jerome here, {bruchus,} the chaffer, which every one knows to be a great devourer of the leaves of trees. The Syriac in Joel 1:4; 2:25, renders it {tzartzooro,} which Michaelis, from the Arabic {tzartzar,} a cricket, interprets the mole-cricket, which in its grub state is also very destructive to corn, grass, and other vegetables, by cankering the roots on which it feeds.

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