James 5:2
New Testament • 4 words with Strong's data
"Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →Cross References
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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