Exodus 8:5
Exodus 8:17
gnats ... people ............ gnats <0120 03654> [lice in man.]
Exodus 8:24
came <0935> [there.]
land ..... land <0776> [the land.]
How intolerable a plague of flies can prove, is evident from the fact that whole districts have been laid waste by them. The inhabitants have been forced to quit their cities, not being able to stand against the flies and gnats with which they were pestered. Hence different people had deities whose office it was to defend them against flies. Among these may be reckoned Baalzebub, the fly-god of Ekron; Hercules, {muscarum abactor,} Hercules the expeller of flies; and hence Jupiter had the titles of [apomuios, muiagros, muiochoros,] because he was supposed to expel flies, and especially clear his temples of these insects. See Bryant.
ruined <07843> [corrupted. or destroyed.]
Exodus 10:14-15
locusts ........................... locusts <0697> [the locusts.]
was very severe <03966 03515> [very grievous.]
before <06440> [before.]
covered <03680> [For they.]
ate <0398> [did eat.]
Joel 1:4-7
[That which the palmer-worm hath left. Heb. The residue of the palmer-worm.]
The learned Bochart, and others, are of the opinion that the four Hebrew words, {gazam, yelek, arbeh, chasil}, respectively rendered the palmer-worm, locust, canker-worm and caterpillar, denote four different species of locusts. See on .# Ex 10:4
consumed .... arbeh-locust ..... consumed ......... consumed <0398 0697> [the locust eaten.]
[the canker-worm eaten.]
[the caterpillar.]
Wake up <06974> [Awake.]
weep <01058> [weep.]
taken away <03772> [for.]
nation <01471> [nation.]
land <0776> [my.]
teeth .... those <08127> [whose.]
destroyed <07760> [laid.]
fig trees .... splinters <08384 07111> [barked my fig-tree. Heb. laid my fig-tree for a barking.]
Joel 2:25
arbeh-locust <0697> [that.]
