Grasshoppers in the Bible, Theology, and Mythology


Grasshopper(s) in the Bible

Leviticus 11:22   [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.

Job 39:20   Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible.

Ecclesiastes 12:5   Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
 
Numbers 13:33   And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Judges 6:5   For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

Judges 7:12   And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

Isaiah 40:22   [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Jeremiah 46:23   They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

Amos 7:1   Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Nahum 3:17   Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].

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Chinese Theology

Pa Cha--Goddess of grasshoppers

Greek and Roman Mythology

Tithonus --A handsome Trojan who was beloved by Eos (who bore him a son, the hero Memnon, king of Ethiopia), to whom he
prayed for immortality, which she granted. He neglected to ask for eternal youth as well, and so grew older and older.
At last he prayed to Eos again, asking for death, but this she could not grant him, so she changed him into a grasshopper.

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