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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָשׁ³: n.m. moth tree →

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 · 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 · 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

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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).

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