Moth
סָ֑סStrong’s H5580sas
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sas is the Hebrew word usually translated “clothes-moth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.”
Meaning
- Moth
How it's translated
- clothes-moth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סָ֑ס sas · moth
moth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “moth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOTH, noun
- An animal of the genus Phalaena, which breeds in yard and garments, and often does injury by eating the substance and destroying the texture. Matthew 6:19
- Figuratively, that which gradually and silently eats, consumes or wastes any thing.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.