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# סָס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5580

**moth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

moth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5580/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָ֑ס: n.m. moth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5580/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. moth (𝔗 סָסָא, Syriac ܣܳܣܳܐ; Assyrian sâsu, DlHWB 506; Arabic سُوسٌ, سُوسَةٌ; Ethiopic ፃፄ Thes LagArmen. Stud. § 2262 cp. Armen. zez = Gk. σής, wh. is der. from סָס by BoHieroz. iii. 514 LewyFremdw. 16 f.);—וְכַצֶּמֶר יֹאכְלֵס סָ֑ס Is 51:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: clothes-moth (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 51:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.8/#tree)

כִּ֤י כַבֶּ֙גֶד֙ יֹאכְלֵ֣ם עָ֔שׁ וְכַצֶּ֖מֶר יֹאכְלֵ֣ם סָ֑ס וְצִדְקָתִי֙ לְעוֹלָ֣ם תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה וִישׁוּעָתִ֖י לְד֥וֹר דּוֹרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) like (the) garment it will.eat.them moth and like (the) wool it will.eat.them clothes-moth and righteousness my forever of.perpetuity it.will.be and salvation my to a.generation of.generations

*JPS 1917:* For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but My favour shall be for ever, and My salvation unto all generations.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5580.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5580/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).