עָֽשׁ Moth
Every verse in which this word stands as the creature — 7 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. The word's lexicon entry carries more than the creature, so these are the creature's own verses — the row's note says what the other places are.
The ash — the quiet destroyer of Yeshayahu's oracles and of Iyov's, eating a garment while nobody watches; 'as a moth to Efrayim,' says Hoshea. The same lexicon entry carries the Aramaic grass of Daniel's chapters, so this row counts only the seven verses of the creature.
הֵן אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה יַֽעֲזָר־לִי מִי־הוּא יַרְשִׁיעֵנִי הֵן כֻּלָּם כַּבֶּגֶד יִבְלוּ עָשׁ יֹאכְלֵֽם
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; Who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment, The moth shall eat them up.
כִּי כַבֶּגֶד יֹאכְלֵם עָשׁ וְכַצֶּמֶר יֹאכְלֵם סָס וְצִדְקָתִי לְעוֹלָם תִּֽהְיֶה וִישׁוּעָתִי לְדוֹר דּוֹרִֽים
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, And the worm shall eat them like wool; But My favour shall be for ever, And My salvation unto all generations.
וַאֲנִי כָעָשׁ לְאֶפְרָיִם וְכָרָקָב לְבֵית יְהוּדָֽה
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, And to the house of Judah as rottenness.
בְּֽתוֹכָחוֹת עַל־עָוֺן יִסַּרְתָּ אִישׁ וַתֶּמֶס כָּעָשׁ חֲמוּדוֹ אַךְ הֶבֶל כָּל־אָדָם סֶֽלָה
With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. Selah
אַף שֹׁכְנֵי בָֽתֵּי־חֹמֶר אֲשֶׁר־בֶּעָפָר יְסוֹדָם יְדַכְּאוּם לִפְנֵי־עָֽשׁ
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
וְהוּא כְּרָקָב יִבְלֶה כְּבֶגֶד אֲכָלוֹ עָֽשׁ
Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
בָּנָה כָעָשׁ בֵּיתוֹ וּכְסֻכָּה עָשָׂה נֹצֵֽר
He buildeth his house as a moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
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Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for moth?
Moth in Hebrew is עש, with a gematria of 370 in the standard method.
How many times is the moth mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 7 times as the creature, first at Isaiah 50:9.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters עש stand 5 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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