Caterpillar

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kat´ẽr-pil-ẽr (חסיל, ḥāṣīl (Psalm 78:46; Joel 1:4, etc.); ילק, yeleḳ (Psalms 105:34 the King James Version, the American Standard Revised Version “grasshopper”; Jeremiah 51:14, Jeremiah 51:27 the King James Version; elsewhere “canker-worm”)):

The consumer. Used in the Old Testament (1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28; Psalm 78:46; Isaiah 33:4) as the translation of a word (hasil) the root of which means “to devour” or “consume,” and which is used also with reference to the locust in Deuteronomy 28:38. It may have been a species of locust, or the name of one of the transformations through which the locust passes, locust-grub.

It is also found (Psalm 105:34; Jeremiah 51:14, Jeremiah 51:27; R.V., “cankerworm”) as the rendering of a different Hebrew word, yelek, a word elsewhere rendered “Cankerworm”, Joel 1:4; Joel 2:25. A name given to a larval stage of the Locust (which see).