Word: akrij

Pronounce: ak-rece'

Strongs Number: G200

Orig: apparently from the same as 206; a locust (as pointed, or as lighting on the top of vegetation):--locust. G206

Use: Noun Feminine

Heb Strong: H697 H1460 H2284 H3218

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.