Cricket (KJV 'beetle')
CLEAN
Leaping insects are permitted (Lev 11:21-22)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 1 verse (KJV)
Insect
Description
The KJV renders the Hebrew chargol as ‘beetle’, but the law’s own test — ‘legs above their feet, to leap withal’ (Leviticus 11:21) — describes a leaping insect, and modern translations render it as a cricket or katydid. True beetles do not leap and fall outside the permission.
Key verses
“Even 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
Fun fact
Modern translations generally render it ‘cricket’ or ‘katydid’ rather than ‘beetle’ — a leaping insect of the same order as locusts and grasshoppers.
All 1 referencesshow
- Leviticus 11:22