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Caterpillar

Smith's Dictionary

The representative in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew word chasil and yelek .

Chasil occurs in (1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28; Psalms 78:46; Isaiah 33:4; Joel 1:4) and seems to be applied to a locust, perhaps in its larva state. Yelek. [Locust].