Strong's Concordance akris: a locust Original Word: ἀκρίς, ίδος, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: akris Phonetic Spelling: (ak-rece') Short Definition: a locust Definition: a locust. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 200: ἀκρίςἀκρίς, (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., Strong's Exhaustive Concordance locust. Apparently from the same as akron; a locust (as pointed, or as lighting on the top of vegetation) -- locust. see GREEK akron Forms and Transliterations ακρίδα ακριδας ακρίδας ἀκρίδας ακριδες ακρίδες ἀκρίδες ακρίδι ακρίδος ακριδων ακρίδων ἀκρίδων ακρίς ακρόασαι ακροάσεως ακρόασιν ακρόασις akridas akrídas akrides akrídes akridon akridōn akrídon akrídōnLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 2004 Occurrences ἀκρίδας — 1 Occ. ἀκρίδες — 2 Occ. ἀκρίδων — 1 Occ. Matthew 3:4 N-NFP GRK: ἦν αὐτοῦ ἀκρίδες καὶ μέλι NAS: and his food was locusts and wild KJV: meat was locusts and wild INT: was of him locusts and honey Mark 1:6 N-AFP Revelation 9:3 N-NFP Revelation 9:7 N-GFP |
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