Strong's #1501: gazam (pronounced gaw-zawm')
from an unused root meaning to devour; a kind of locust:--palmer-worm.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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gâzâm
1) locusts
Part of Speech: noun masculine collective
Relation: from an unused root meaning to devour
Usage:
This word is used 3 times:
Joel 1:4: " That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten;"
Joel 2:25: "hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent"
Amos 4:9: "and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto"