ash · moth

What it means

ash (עָשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “moth”.

A moth: the insect that eats clothing. An image of what is frail and of what is destroyed without a sound.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An insect that eats clothing.
2. Green grass of the field, which the beasts eat.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• moth ×7
• grass ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Daniel×5
• Hosea×1

• Job 4:19

  how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust; they crush them before the moth.

• Job 13:28

  And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that the moth has eaten.

• Job 27:18

  He builds his house like the moth, and like a hut that a watchman makes.

• Psalms 39:11

  With rebukes for iniquity you correct a man, and you melt away like a moth what he treasures; only a vapor is every human being. Selah.

• Isaiah 50:9

  Look, Adonai YHWH helps me; who is he who will condemn me? Look, all of them like a garment will wear out; the moth will eat them.

• Isaiah 51:8

  For like a garment the moth will eat them, and like wool the worm will eat them; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for generations of generations.”

• Daniel 4:15

  But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals be his portion in the grass of the earth.

• Daniel 4:25

  that you will be driven away from men, and with the animals of the field your dwelling will be, and grass like oxen you will be made to eat, and with the dew of the heavens you will be drenched, and seven times will pass over you, until you know that Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and to whomever he wishes he gives it.

• Daniel 4:32

  and from men you are being driven away, and with the animals of the field will be your dwelling; grass like oxen you will be made to eat, and seven times will pass over you, until you know that Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and to whomever he wishes he gives it.”

• Daniel 4:33

  At that very moment the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and from men he was driven away, and grass like oxen he ate, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

• Daniel 5:21

  And from the sons of men he was driven away, and his heart was made like that of the animals, and with the wild donkeys was his dwelling; grass like oxen he was made to eat, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until he knew that Elah Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and whomever he wishes he sets up over it.

• Hosea 5:12

  And I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.