What Is Locusts in the Bible?
Food
Insects like large grasshoppers. The Law of Moses allowed people to eat them.
It can mean
- In the Bible: the insect.
- Careful: in English, “locust” is also the name of some trees. In the Bible it is the insect.
Where it appears in the Bible
Mark 1:6
What the Bible says
Mark 1:6
And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Leviticus 11:22; Dictionary.com, “locust”