Lexical Definition

‎סׇלְעָם‎ çolʻâm (sol-awm') locust ^H:N-M
apparently from the same as ‎סֶלַע‎ in the sense of crushing as with a rock, i.e. consuming

bald locust.

• a kind of locust (from its destructiveness)

1) locust
1a) an edible winged locust

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎סָלְעָם‎ noun masculine an edible, winged, locust (Late Hebrew id.; swallower, consumer, compare ᵑ7 ‎סַלְעֵם‎ swallow up, destroy; Arabic verb swallow, Kö^{ii. 1, 404}); — Lev 11:22 (+ ‎אַרְבֶּה‎, ‎חַרְגֹּל‎, ‎חַגָב‎).

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