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# עָשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6211

**moth** — used 6 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/1506/6211/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשׁ³: n.m. moth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6211/#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, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: moth (4); a moth (2).

## In the verses

[Job 13:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.28/#tree)

וְ֭הוּא כְּרָקָ֣ב יִבְלֶ֑ה כְּ֝בֶ֗גֶד אֲכָ֣לוֹ עָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and he like rottenness he.wears.out like a.garment \[which\].it eats.it a.moth

*JPS 1917:* Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

[Job 27:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.18/#tree)

בָּנָ֣ה כָעָ֣שׁ בֵּית֑וֹ וּ֝כְסֻכָּ֗ה עָשָׂ֥ה נֹצֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* he.has.built like (the) moth house his and like a.shelter \[which\].he.has.made a.watchman

*JPS 1917:* He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6211.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6211/): 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).