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Strong's #200: akris (pronounced ak-rece')

apparently from the same as 206; a locust (as pointed, or as lighting on the top of vegetation):--locust.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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akris

1) a locust, particularly that species which especially infests oriental countries, stripping fields and trees. Numberless swarms of them almost every spring are carried by the wind from Arabia into Palestine, and having devastated that country, migrate to regions farther north, until they perish by falling into the sea. The Orientals accustomed to feed upon locusts, either raw or roasted and seasoned with salt (or prepared in other ways), and the Israelites also were permitted to eat them.

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: apparently from the same as G206




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Matthew 3:4: "his meat was locusts and wild honey."
Mark 1:6: "loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;"
Revelation 9:3: "out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and"
Revelation 9:7: "the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto"









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