. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Aeridium lineola. Hebrew Bible. The A. V. in the four followingpassages has grasshopper, Judg. vi. 5, vii. 12;Job xxxix. 20; Jer. xlvi. 23: in all the other places it has locust. The word arbch, from a root sig-nifying to be numerous, is probably sometimes usedin a wide sense to express any of the larger devas-tating species. It is the locust of the Egyptianplague. (Plagues, the Ten.) In almost everypassage where arbeh occurs, reference is madeto its terribly destructive powers. It is oneof the flying creeping creatures that were al-lowed as food by
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Aeridium lineola. Hebrew Bible. The A. V. in the four followingpassages has grasshopper, Judg. vi. 5, vii. 12;Job xxxix. 20; Jer. xlvi. 23: in all the other places it has locust. The word arbch, from a root sig-nifying to be numerous, is probably sometimes usedin a wide sense to express any of the larger devas-tating species. It is the locust of the Egyptianplague. (Plagues, the Ten.) In almost everypassage where arbeh occurs, reference is madeto its terribly destructive powers. It is oneof the flying creeping creatures that were al-lowed as food by the law of Moses (Lev. xi. 21).In this passage it is clearly the representative ofsome species of winged Saltatorial Orlhoplera, prob-ably either the Acridium peregrinum, or the (Edi-poda migratoria, for these two species are the mostdestructive of the family. Of the former species. Acridium peregrinum. M. Olivier ( Voyage dam P Empire Olhoman, ii. 424)thus writes: With the burning S. winds (of Syria)there come from the interior of Arabia and fromthe most southern parts of Persia clouds of locusts(Acridium peregrinum), whose ravages to thesecountries are as grievous and nearly as sudden asthose of the heaviest hail in Europe. We witnessedthem twice. It is difficult to express the effect pro-duced on us by the sight of the whole atmosphere filledon all sides and to a great height by an innumerablequantity of these insects, whose flight was slow anduniform, and whose noise resembled that of rain:the sky was darkened, and the light of the sun con-siderably weakened. In a moment the terraces ofthe houses, the streets, and all the fields were cov-ered by these insects, and in two days they hadnearly devoured all the leaves of the plants. Hap-pily they lived but a short time, and seemed to havemigrated only to reproduce themselves and die ; infact, nearly all those we
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