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# עָשׁ

Biblical Hebrew

**moth** — used 2 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

moth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשׁ³: n.m. moth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Is 50:9 moth (as waster, consumer);—ע׳ abs., Ho 5:12 (‖ רָקָב), Is 50:9; 51:8; in sim. ψ 39:12; כְּבֶגֶד אֲכָלוֹ עָשׁ Jb 13:28; symbol of fragility Jb 4:19.—27:18 read prob. עַכָּבִישׁ q.v.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] Bear (1); moth (1).

## In the verses

[Job 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.9/#tree)

עֹֽשֶׂה־עָ֭שׁ כְּסִ֥יל וְכִימָ֗ה וְחַדְרֵ֥י תֵמָֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].makes \[the\].Bear Orion and Pleiades and.\[the\] chambers of.\[the\].south

*JPS 1917:* Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

[Hosea 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.12/#tree)

וַאֲנִ֥י כָעָ֖שׁ לְאֶפְרָ֑יִם וְכָרָקָ֖ב לְבֵ֥ית יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I \[am\].like (the) moth to Ephraim and like (the) rottenness to the.house of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e9_5c1/): 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).