חָגָב m. (b. h.) 1) hopper, locust. Sabb. IX, 7 ח׳ חי טהור a living clean (eatable) locust.—Pl. חֲגָבִים, חֲגָבין. Ḥull. 63ᵇ מיני ח׳ species of locusts. Pes. III, 5 (spreading apart) כקרני ח׳ like the proboscides of locusts. Sabb. 106ᵇ; Tosef. ib. XII (XIII), 5. Gen. R. s. 38 the palm-trees appeared to them כאלו ח׳ as though they were locusts (v. חֲגָזָא). —2) (metaph.) pudenda. Sabb. 152ᵃ, v. עֲגָבָה. V. also קַרְסוֹל.