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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:46 KJV (With Strong’s)

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46
Heb gave
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
also their increase
ybuwl (Hebrew #2981)
produce, i.e. a crop or (figuratively) wealth
KJV usage: fruit, increase.
Pronounce: yeb-ool'
Origin: from 2986
unto the caterpiller
chaciyl (Hebrew #2625)
the ravager, i.e. a locust
KJV usage: caterpillar.
Pronounce: khaw-seel'
Origin: from 2628
, and their labor
ygiya` (Hebrew #3018)
toil; hence, a work, produce, property (as the result of labor)
KJV usage: labour, work.
Pronounce: yeg-ee'-ah
Origin: from 3021
unto the locust
'arbeh (Hebrew #697)
a locust (from its rapid increase)
KJV usage: grasshopper, locust.
Pronounce: ar-beh'
Origin: from 7235
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Ex. 10:13• 13And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. (Ex. 10:13)

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caterpillar,
locust

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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gave also.
Psa. 105:34‑35• 34He spoke, and locusts came and canker-worm,{HR}And there was no number;
 35And they devoured every herb in their land,{HR}And ate the fruit of their ground. (Psa. 105:34‑35)
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Ex. 10:12‑15• 12And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land—all that the hail hath left.
 13And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
 14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very grievous; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such.
 15And they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing on the trees, and in the herbs of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. (Ex. 10:12‑15)
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Joel 1:4‑7• 4That which the palmerworm hath left hath the [swarming] locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
 6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
 7He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white. (Joel 1:4‑7)
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Joel 2:25• 25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)
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Amos 7:1‑2• 1Thus did the Lord Jehovah show unto me; and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
 2And it came to pass, when they had wholly eaten the grass of the land, that I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small. (Amos 7:1‑2)
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Rev. 9:2‑11• 2And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke arose out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace: and the sun was darkened and the air by the smoke of the pit.
 3And out of the smoke came forth locusts unto the earth, and there was given them power as the scorpions of the earth have power.
 4And it was said to them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but the men which have not the seal of God on their foreheads.
 5And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it striketh a man.
 6And in those days shall men seek death and shall in no wise find it, and shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
 7And the likenesses of the locusts were like horses prepared for war, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as the faces of men.
 8And they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as of lions.
 9And they had breastplates as iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was as a sound of chariots of many horses running unto war.
 10And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails was their power to hurt men five months.
 11They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon; and in the Greek he hath the name Apollyon. (Rev. 9:2‑11)
The Syriac in Joel 1:4; 2:25, renders it {tzartzooro,} which Michaelis, from the Arabic {tzartzar,} a cricket, interprets the mole-cricket, which in its grub state is also very destructive to corn, grass, and other vegetables, by cankering the roots on which it feeds.
• {v.46-64} Alas! as they had tempted God in the wilderness, and kept not His testimonies, so now they forsook the sanctuary―God’s center―and set up high places, and turned from God to graven images. The solemn result was that God broke all outward links with the people. He greatly abhorred Israel; He forsook His tabernacle; He allows the ark to pass into captivity, and His people are given over to the sword. (“Psalm 78” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he gave their increase unto the caterpillarg, and their labour unto the locust;

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "the devourer," a species of locust. so 1 Kings 8.37; 2 Chron. 6.28. see Joel 1.4.

W. Kelly Translation

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And he gave their increase to the caterpillar,{HR}And their labour to the locust.