Word Summary
sēs: a moth
Original Word: σήςTransliteration: sēs
Phonetic Spelling: (sace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a moth
Meaning: a moth
Strong's Concordance
moth.
Apparently of Hebrew origin (cac); a moth -- moth.
see HEBREW cac
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4597: σήςσής,
σητός,
ὁ (Hebrew
סָס.,
Isaiah 51:8;
עָשׁ,
Job 4:19;
Job 13:28),
a moth, the clothes-moth (
B. D., under the word
; Alex.'s Kitto, under the word Ash): Matthew 6:19; Luke 12:33. (Pindar, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, others.)