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Strong's #200 - ἀκρίς
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- 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.
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ἄκρις, ιος, ἡ, (ἄκρος)
Noun, hill-top, mountain peak, Hom. only in Od., always in pl., ἄκριες ἠνεμόεσσαι windy mountain tops, Od. 9.400, cf. h.Cer. 382; δι' ἄκριας through hill-country, Od. 10.281: — sg., Περγαμίης ὑπὲρ ἄκριος Epigr.Gr. 1035.8 (Pergam.).
ἀκρίς, (ίδος, ἡ (from Homer down), 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 are accustomed to feed upon locusts, either raw or roasted and seasoned with salt (or prepared in other ways), and the Israelites also (according to Leviticus 11:22) were permitted to eat them; (cf. Winers RWB under the word Heuschrecken; Furrer in Schenkel iii., p. 78f; (BB. DD.,
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