A GRASSHOPPER, or locust — the insect the ten scouts compare themselves to: 'in our own eyes we were like chagavim' (Numbers 13:33, already on these pages). ⚠ It is one of the winged swarming creatures Leviticus 11:22 (already on these pages) explicitly PERMITS Israel to eat, which puts a quiet edge on the comparison: men who have just described a land that eats its inhabitants liken themselves to something on the menu. The Spanish shelf reads langostas, locusts, and the English 'grasshoppers'; they are the same insect family, and the distinction is one English happens to make and Hebrew does not. Nothing in the noun implies smallness on its own — the sense of being dwarfed comes from the sentence. → first discussed at Num 13:33