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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(biting animal). A species of locust is evidently meant (Lev. 11:21-22²¹Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; ²²Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. (Leviticus 11:21‑22)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

This name occurs but once in the list of insects which the Israelites were allowed to eat, and is generally held to be a species of locust (Lev. 11:22²²Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. (Leviticus 11:22)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

2728 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

chargol

Phonic:

khar-gole’

Meaning:

from 2727; the leaping insect, i.e. a locust

KJV Usage:

beetle