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Moth

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Moth. The clothes-moth, which, in its caterpillar state, is very destructive to woven fabrics. In Job 4:19 man is said to be "crushed before the moth"—that is, more easily than the moth.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Moth'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​m/moth.html. 1893.
 
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