174 BARON WALCKENAER ON THE INSECTS 
~ V. Gaza—Gaza.is another Hebrew word which is once used in the 
Bible as the name of an insect particularly injurious to the vine, but it is 
afterwards frequently employed as the name of an insect which devas- 
tates all sorts of plants ; with several other names of insects which have 
given occasionto a great number of dissertations, some of which extend 
to volumes. We have examined the modern names which appear to 
correspond to the ancient ones of the insects mentioned in the Bible 
in connexion with the word Gaza; and this examination may perhaps 
form the subject of another memoir. At present we shall confine our 
investigations to the word Gaza, because it is the only one among these 
namesemployed todenote an insect particularly injurious to the vine ; and 
we shall notice the other names of insects which accompany the word 
Gaza, only so far as may be necessary for its interpretation. But such 
is the diversity of opinion among translators, that to obtain clear ideas 
it will be necessary to produce the passages in which this word occurs, 
giving our own translation of them, but retaining the Hebrew names. 
The following passage in which Gaza is employed as the name of ari 
insect destructive to the vine is in the prophet Amos, chap. iv.v. 9: | 
“ T have smitten you with ascorching wind, and with mildew. Gaza 
has devoured your gardens, all your vines, and all your olive plants and 
fig-trees, and you have not returned to me, saith the Lord.” 
We find the word Gaza again in Joel, chap. ii. v. 25: 
‘ T will restore you the fruits of the year, and all that you have lost 
by Arbeh, Jeleh, Chazil and Gaza, that destroying multitude that I 
sent to you.” 
But there is a passage in Joel, chap. i. ver. 4, of still greater import- 
ance with regard to the translation of the word Gaza: 
“That which the Gaza leaves, the Arbeh eats ; that which the Arbeh 
leaves, the Jelek eats; and that which the Jelek leaves, the Chazil 
eats.” 
In all these passages the Seventy have translated Gaza by Kampé, 
and the Vulgate by Fuca, that is to say, a caterpillar. The pastors of 
‘Genevaand De Sacy have adopted this translation. It has also the ap- 
proval of Bochart* and Michaelis. But the Chaldee Version applies 
‘Gaza to a sort of creeping locust, and the Talmud enumerates ten spe- 
‘cies of locusts mentioned in the Prophets alone, and among these is the 
‘Gaza. 
The three other names of insects mentioned in the same verse of Joel, 
‘Arbeh, Jelek, and Chazil, are included in the ten species of locusts enu- 
‘merated in the Talmud by the Hebrew doctors. j 
fodldied animals, in which this naturalist proves that the worms, étherwiae 
called Annelida, ought to be placed at the head of this division, and Ws on 
Crustacea, the Arachnida, and Insects. 
* * Boclenh Hieroxoicon, pee li. p. 483. 
