ye.leq denotes a locust depicted as consuming vegetation, multiplying in swarms, stripping resources, or serving as a forceful comparison.

The attested use presents ye.leq as a locust in scenes of consumption and devastation, as in the successive eating in Joel 1:4 and the years of loss in Joel 2:25. The same noun also figures in comparisons for a multitude of men or horses, in a report of stripping and flight, and among locusts that arrive at a command.

1. Locust in destructive and numerous activity · dominant

   In Joel 1:4 the two masculine singular absolute forms occur in the sequence of creatures that eat what earlier ones leave, while Joel 2:25 places the form among the agents that have eaten years of produce. In Jeremiah 51:14 and Jeremiah 51:27 the APB renders comparisons with men and horses as “locusts,” and Nahum 3:16 renders the clause “the locust stripped and flew away.” Psalm 105:34 presents locusts as coming at a spoken command, while Nahum 3:15 uses the form in repeated comparison with what consumes and becomes heavy.

   Joel 1:4Joel 2:25Jeremiah 51:14Jeremiah 51:27Nahum 3:16Psalm 105:34

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB usually presents the noun with “locust” or “locusts,” including comparisons involving men and horses. In Joel 1:4 and Joel 2:25 it uses several differing locust descriptions within lists, so the translation does not isolate the contribution of each supplied form.