# יֶלֶק (yeleq)

Israeli respelling: ye-leq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3218. 7 Old Testament occurrences.

a devourer; specifically, the young locust

King James renderings: cankerworm, caterpillar.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yeleq-h3218

## Occurrences

- [Psalms 105:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/34) — He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
- [Jeremiah 51:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/14) — The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout aga…
- [Jeremiah 51:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/27) — Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdo…
- [Joel 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/4) — That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which th…
- [Joel 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/25) — And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army whic…
- [Nahum 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/15) — There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerwo…
- [Nahum 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/16) — Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.