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Moth

Moth denotes "a clothes moth," Mat 1:6-20, Luk 12:33. In Job 4:19 "crushed before the moth" alludes apparently to the fact that woolen materials, riddled by the larvae of "moths," become so fragile that a touc...

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Meaning

Moth <1,,4597, ses>

denotes "a clothes moth," Mat 1:6-20, Luk 12:33. In Job 4:19 "crushed before the moth" alludes apparently to the fact that woolen materials, riddled by the larvae of "moths," become so fragile that a touch demolishes them. In Job 27:18 "He buildeth his house as a moth" alludes to the frail covering which a larval "moth" constructs out of the material which it consumes. The rendering "spider" (marg.) seems an attempt to explain a difficulty.

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