a grasshopper
(same as Hagabah)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HAGAB (Ezr_2:46).His descendants returned with Zerubbabel. The name is absent from the parallel list in Neh_7:1-73; it appears in 1Es_5:30 as Accaba.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ha'gab. (locust). Bene-Hagab, (that is, sons of Hagab), were among the Nethinim who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Ezr_2:46. (B.C. before 536).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
hā?gab (חגב, ḥāghābh, ?locust?): Ancestor of some of the Nethinim who returned from the Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel and Nehemiah. The name occurs second after Hagabah in Ezr_2:46, but is omitted entirely from the parallel list of Neh_7:48.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hagab
(Heb. Chagab', חָגָב, a locust; Sept. Α᾿γάβ), one of the Nethinim whose descendants returned from Babylon under Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:46). B.C. ante 536. SEE HAGABA.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.