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).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2595: κάρφοςκάρφος, καρφεος ( καρφους), τό (from κάρφω to contract, dry up, wither), a dry stalk or twig, a straw; chaff ( A. V. mote): Matthew 7:3-5; Luke 6:41f, where it figuratively denotes a smaller fault. ( Genesis 8:11; in Greek writings from Aeschylus and Herodotus down.)
Strong's mote, speck From karpho (to wither); a dry twig or straw -- mote. |
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