Lexicon
karphos: a small dry stalk
Original Word: κάρφος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: karphos
Phonetic Spelling: (kar'-fos)
Short Definition: a dry stalk, chip of wood
Definition: a dry stalk, chip of wood, twig, splinter, chaff.
HELPS word-Studies
2595 kárphos – properly, a small particle (a splinter of straw or wood); "a dry stalk; a chip of wood" (Souter); something dry and light; a "chip or splinter, of the same material with the beam" (WS, 35).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom karphó (to dry up, wither)
Definitiona small dry stalk
NASB Translationspeck (6).
