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# עָשֵׁשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6244

**waste away** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

waste away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6244/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשֵׁשׁ: vb. waste away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6244/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. waste away (cf. Assyrian ašašu, moth; Arabic عُثٌّ moth(-worm), عَثَّ eat (of moth; ? denom.); according to De ψ 6:8 al. עָשֵׁשׁ is denom. from עָשׁ, prop. be moth-eaten, but improb.); according to JacobZMG 1901, 142; ZAW 1902, 107 be dark; cf. עשׁשׁא darkness, in Chr-Pal. Pf. 3 fs. עָֽשְׁשָׁה מִּכַּעַם עֵינִי ψ 6:8 my eye is wasted from grief, = 31:10 (בְּכַעַם; + נַפְשִׁי, בִּטְנִי); 3 pl. עֲצָמַי עָשֵׁ֑שׁוּ v 11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it has wasted away (2); they have wasted away (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.6.8/#tree)

עָֽשְׁשָׁ֣ה מִכַּ֣עַס עֵינִ֑י עָֽ֝תְקָ֗ה בְּכָל־צוֹרְרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* it.has.wasted.away from grief eye my it.has.grown.weak with all foes my

*JPS 1917:* Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

[Psalms 31:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.10/#tree)

חָנֵּ֥נִי יְהוָה֮ כִּ֤י צַ֫ר־לִ֥י עָשְׁשָׁ֖ה בְכַ֥עַס עֵינִ֗י נַפְשִׁ֥י וּבִטְנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* show favor.to.me O.Yahweh (dm) it.is.distress to me it.has.wasted.away with grief eye my being my and belly my

*JPS 1917:* Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I am in distress; mine eye wasteth away with vexation, yea, my soul and my body.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6244/): 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).