- גּוֹבַאי
- גּוֹבַאי, גּוֹבַייm. (b. h. גּוֹב; גּוֹבַי, גבה, cmp. גִּבֵּהַ) (the hump-backed, gobay, a species of edible locusts. Ber.VI, 3. Sabb.32b. Y.Taan.I, end, 64b שני דברים … וג׳ two calamities, drought and locusts. Ib. III, 66d (homiletic etymology) why it is called גוביי? דו גבי דינאוכ׳ because it collects the (fines of) judgment of the Lord.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
