עָשׁ

Job 4:19 עָֽשׁ׃ a moth

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Here: The clothes-moth. Elsewhere in the Bible it is a byword both for something tiny and easily crushed and for slow, silent destruction of cloth. Either way it marks human life as absurdly fragile.

Job 13:28 עָֽשׁ׃ a moth

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Job 27:18 כָעָ֣שׁ like <the> moth

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

Psalm 39:11 כָּעָ֣שׁ like <the> moth

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Here: "Like the moth." The clothes moth, or more precisely its larva, which silently eats through a stored garment. The damage is unseen until the cloth falls apart.

Isaiah 50:9 עָ֖שׁ moth

Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.

Isaiah 51:8 עָ֔שׁ moth

For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”

Here: The clothes-moth, a standard Hebrew picture of quiet, certain decay (Job 13:28; Hos 5:12; Isa 50:9). The word is held back to the end of its clause, so the line builds up to the small, ridiculous destroyer.

Daniel 4:15 בַּעֲשַׂ֥ב in [the] grass of

But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.

Here: 'In the plants', the green growth animals graze on. Verses 25, 32 and 33 make it explicit: 'you will eat grass like oxen.'

Daniel 4:25 וְעִשְׂבָּ֥א and <the> grass

You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.

Here: Wild greenery and grass: fodder for animals, not food prepared at a table. It is put first for emphasis: *grass* is what he will eat.

Daniel 4:32 עִשְׂבָּ֤א <the> grass

You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”

Here: Green plants and grass, the food of grazing animals. Placed first in its clause for emphasis: 'grass is what you will be fed.'

Daniel 4:33 וְעִשְׂבָּ֤א and <the> grass

At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

Daniel 5:21 עִשְׂבָּ֤א <the> grass

He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.

Here: Wild herbage of the field: animal fodder, not human food.

Hosea 5:12 כָעָ֖שׁ [am] like <the> moth

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.