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bē´t'l (the Revised Version (British and American) CRICKET; חרגּל, hÌ£argoÌ„l; See LOCUST): This name occurs only in as one of four winged Jumping insects (sherec haÌ„-‛oÌ„ph) which may be eaten. It certainly is not a beetle and is probably not a cricket. Probably all four are names of locusts, of which more than 30 species have been described from Syria and Palestine, and for which there are at least 8 Arabic names in use, though with little distinction of species. Closely allied to hÌ£argoÌ„l are the Arabic hÌ£arjalet, a troop of horses or a flight of locusts, from hÌ£arjal, “to gallop,†and harjawaÌ„n, “a wingless locust.â€