Moth
עָשׁStrong’s H6211ash
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ash is the Aramaic word usually translated “like moth”, “moth” and “grass”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:”
Meaning
- Moth
- Herbage, grass
How it's translated
- like moth 3
- a moth 2
- moth 2
- and grass 2
- grass 2
- in grass of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
- Job 3
- Isaiah 2
- Psalms 1
- Hosea 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:25In contextThat they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 4:32In contextAnd they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 4:33In contextThe same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 5:21In contextAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
- Job 4:19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
- Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Aramaic dictionary
עָשׁ ash · moth
moth
עֲשַׂב asav · grass
herbage, grass Aramaic of e.sev (עֵ֫שֶׂב "vegetation" H6212)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.