Çolʻâm — H5556

Definition

masculine noun

a kind of locust (from its destructiveness)

1. locust
1. an edible winged locust

Usually translated as

bald locust

Origin

apparently from the same as H5553 in the sense of crushing as with a rock, i.e. consuming

• Same as Çelaʻ (H5553)

Occurrences

Çolʻâm occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1)

• Leviticus 11:22 — Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust (הַסָּלְעָ֖ם) after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.