Dict: easton - Moth

Moth @ Heb. 'ash, from a root meaning "to fall away," as moth-eaten garments fall to pieces kjv@Job:4:19 kjv@Job:13:28; kjv@Isaiah:50:9 kjv@Isaiah:51:8; kjv@Hosea:5:12). Gr. ses, thus rendered in kjv@Matthew:6:19-20; kjv@Luke:12:33. Allusion is thus made to the destruction of clothing by the larvae of the clothes-moth. This is the only lepidopterous insect referred to in Scripture.