Strong's #3218: yekeq (pronounced yeh'-lek)

from an unused root meaning to lick up; a devourer; specifically, the young locust:--cankerworm, caterpillar.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yeleq

1) young locust (early stage of development)

1a) caterpillar (as devouring)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to lick up

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Psalms 105:34: "He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,"
Jeremiah 51:14: "saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against"
Jeremiah 51:27: "her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars."
Joel 1:4: "and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar"
Joel 1:4: "hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten."
Joel 2:25: "the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army"
Nahum 3:15: "shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts."
Nahum 3:15: "it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts."
Nahum 3:16: "thy merchants above the stars the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away."