Grasshopper
CLEAN
Leaping insects are permitted (Lev 11:21-22)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 10 verses (KJV)
Insect
Description
Grasshoppers belonged to the same permitted family as locusts, distinguished mainly by their leaping legs. When Israel’s spies returned from scouting Canaan, they reached for this small, easily-crushed creature to describe how outmatched they felt next to the land’s giants.
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
Symbolism
Overwhelming smallness in the face of a daunting task — ‘we were in our own sight as grasshoppers’ (Numbers 13:33).
All 10 referencesshow
- Amos 7:1
- Ecclesiastes 12:5
- Isaiah 40:22
- Jeremiah 46:23
- Job 39:20
- Judges 6:5
- Judges 7:12
- Leviticus 11:22
- Nahum 3:17
- Numbers 13:33