Strong's Definition
from 1461; the locust (from its grubbing as a larvae)
KJV Usage: grasshopper, X great
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גּוֹב (gov) — locust. locusts Another spelling of gi.vay (גֹּבַי "locust" H1462B)
גֹּבַי (gi.vay) — locust. locusts, symbol of Yahweh's judgment on Isr. ; in sim. of disappearance of Assyrian leaders at destruction of Nineveh Also means: gov (גּוֹב "locust" H1462A)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · גֵּב
Swarming Creatures
locust = six-legged, winged insect that is characterized by the fact that its third pair of legs is elongated and adapted to hopping; insects of this type move in swarms at certain periods and migrate to new areas, which they colonize; at other times they live either solitary or in small groups; ◄ Acrididae family; ► normally eaten cooked by toasting, grilling, frying, or broiling, though in some places they are also eaten raw; clean animal, that may be eaten; ≈ associated with large quantities and destruction
1 NAM 3:17 The phrase כְּגֹוב גֹּבָי "like a locust of locusts" is normally taken as a case of dittography from an original כְּגֹבָי "like locusts", as per LXX. Most versions translate it as a collective noun phrase: RSV "like clouds of locusts", NJPS "like piles of hoppers", NJB "like swarms of hoppers", NIV "like swarms of locusts". The Vulgate follows the MT more closely "quasi lucustae lucustarum", "like (the) locusts of locusts".
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
גּוֹב n.[m.] locusts, Na 3:17 ref
גֹּבַי, גּוֹבָ֑י n.m. coll. locusts, symbol of Yahweh’s judgment on Isr. Am 7:1; in sim. of disappearance of Assyrian leaders at destruction of Nineveh Na 3:17 ref