Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
locust
Usage: ἀκρίς, -ίδος, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for אַרְבֶּה, also for חָגָב, etc. ;] a locust: Mat.3:4, Mrk.1:6, Rev.9:3, 7.† (AS)
Akris means “locust” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H200 — ivveleth (“folly”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G200 ἀκρίς (akris) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. akris (ak-rece') n. 1. a locust {as pointed, or as lighting upon the top of vegetation} It has 35 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include locusts. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
akris (ak-rece') n. 1. a locust {as pointed, or as lighting upon the top of vegetation} [apparently from G206, akin to the base of G188] KJV: locust Root(s): G206 See also: G188
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locust
Usage: ἀκρίς, -ίδος, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for אַרְבֶּה, also for חָגָב, etc. ;] a locust: Mat.3:4, Mrk.1:6, Rev.9:3, 7.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render akris, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G200 (ἀκρίς) appears 33 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
28 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But if thou wilt not send my people away, behold, at this hour tomorrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all thy coasts.
And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up on the land, and it shall devour every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail left.
And Moses lifted up his rod toward heaven, and the Lord brought a south wind upon the earth, all that day and all that night: the morning dawned, and the south wind brought up the locusts,
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
A great number also of sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without number.
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, Neither was there found any remedy for their life: For they were worthy to be punished by such.
The eye marveleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, And the heart is astonished at the raining of it.
First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G200.
But if thou wilt not send my people away, behold, at this hour tomorrow I will bring an abundance of locusts upon all thy coasts.
And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up on the land, and it shall devour every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail left.
And Moses lifted up his rod toward heaven, and the Lord brought a south wind upon the earth, all that day and all that night: the morning dawned, and the south wind brought up the locusts,
and brought them up over all the land of Egypt. And they rested in very great abundance over all the borders of Egypt. Before them there were not such locusts, neither after them shall there be.
And the Lord brought in the opposite direction a strong wind from the sea, and took up the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea, and there was not one locust left in all the land of Egypt.
And these of them ye shall eat: the caterpillar and his like, and the attacus and his like, and the cantharus and his like, and the locust and his like.
And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.
Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.
For they and their stock came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel, and laid it waste.
And Midian and Amalek and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.
If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a pestilent wind and blight; if there should be locust and caterpillar, and if the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and whatever distress they may be;
If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people;
And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, And their labors to the locust.
He spoke, and the locust came, And caterpillars innumerable,
I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.
The locusts have no king, and yet march orderly at one command.
And they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, And the almond tree shall blossom, And the locust shall increase, And the caper shall be scattered: Because man has gone to his eternal home, And the mourners have gone about the market:
And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered: as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock you.
It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in:
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for their number cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.
For the Lord has sworn by his arm, saying, I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against thee.
Lift up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by me, and that for the people of Ashkenaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.
Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.
The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even my great army, which I sent against you.
Thus has the Lord God shown me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, King Gog.
There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.
Thy mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
A great number also of sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without number.
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, Neither was there found any remedy for their life: For they were worthy to be punished by such.
The eye marveleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, And the heart is astonished at the raining of it.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G200, grouped by book.
Akris (Strong's G200) is a Greek word most simply glossed "locust". akris (ak-rece') n. 1. a locust {as pointed, or as lighting upon the top of vegetation}
This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's G200 across 21 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G200 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as locusts. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G200, with linked reader references where each row is available.