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LOCUST. Authorized as food, Lev. 11:22; used as, Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6. Plague of, Ex. 10:1-19; Psa. 105:34,35. Devastation by, Deut. 28:38; 1 Kin. 8:37; 2 Chr. 7:13; Isa. 33:4; Joel 1:4-7; Rev. 9:7-10. Sun obscured by, Joel 2:2,10. Instincts of, Prov. 30:27. In A.V. often inaccurately translated "grasshopper,'' as in Judg. 6:5; 7:12; Job 39:20; Jer. 46:23. See Grasshopper.
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