Beetle

The umbrella term gathers the leaping insects permitted as food in the dietary law. UPDV renders the Hebrew species set as locust, bald locust, cricket, and grasshopper — the older "beetle" rendering does not appear in the UPDV text.

Authorized as Food

Among the swarming things, the dietary law admits the leaping insects: "Even these of those you⁺ may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind" (Le 11:22). The plural-you addresses Israel collectively, and the four named kinds form a closed exception within the otherwise prohibited swarmers.