Dict: easton - Caterpillar

easton:

Caterpillar @ the consumer. Used in the Old Testament (kjvKings:8:37; kjv@2Chronicals:6:28; kjv@Psalms:78:46; kjv@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 kjv@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 kjv@Psalms:105:34; kjv@Jeremiah:51:14 kjv@Jeremiah:51:27 R.V., "cankerworm") as the rendering of a different Hebrew word, yelek, a word elsewhere rendered "cankerworm" (q.v.), kjv@Joel:1:4 kjv@Joel:2:25. (
See LOCUST.)