Word Forms
These forms come from “locust” and change to fit the sentence.
- locustbase form
- locustedpast and past participle
- locustingpresent participle
- locustsplural, third-person singular present
locust
WEB 29 appearances
KJV 28 appearances
A locust is a big insect that eats plants. It can make crops disappear.
Biblical Usage
In the Bible, locusts are used to show God’s power and to warn people. They come in large numbers and eat everything. They are a sign of trouble or a test for people.
WEB Representative Scriptures
Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.Leviticus 11:22 (WEB)
You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.Deuteronomy 28:38 (WEB)
There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.Nahum 3:15 (WEB)
KJV Representative Scriptures
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.Deuteronomy 28:38 (KJV)
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.Psalms 109:23 (KJV)
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.Joel 2:25 (KJV)