עָשׁ ash

Hebrew word for “moth” · Strong’s H6211 · used 12 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

moth

Senses in the lexicon

• moth (7)
• grass (5)

How it is translated

Glosses given for ash in context, with how often each is used:

• grass 5
• moth 4
• like moth 3

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Daniel 4 (4), Job 4 (1), Job 13 (1), Job 27 (1), Psalms 39 (1), Isaiah 50 (1), Isaiah 51 (1), Daniel 5 (1), Hosea 5 (1)

Forms

• עשׁ 4
• כעשׁ 3
• ועשׂבא 2
• עשׂבא 2
• בעשׂב 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ash more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• טְרַד terad “to chase away” 4
• צְבַע tseva “to drench” 4
• טַל tal “dew” 4
• תּוֹר tor “bullock” 4
• חֵיוָא cheva “beast” 4
• אֱנָשׁ enash “man” 4
• עִם im “with” 4
• טְעֵם team “to feed” 3
• עַד ad “till” 4
• מְדוֹר medor “dwelling” 3
• שָׁמַיִן shamayin “heaven” 4
• בַּר bar “field” 3

Key verses

The verses using ash that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Job 4:19 — How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
• Job 13:28 — And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
• Job 27:18 — He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
• Psalms 39:11 — When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
• Isaiah 50:9 — Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
• Isaiah 51:8 — 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…
• Daniel 4:15 — 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…
• Daniel 4:25 — That 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…
• Daniel 4:32 — And 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…
• Daniel 4:33 — The 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,…
• Daniel 5:21 — And 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,…
• Hosea 5:12 — Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.