Lexicon achuron: chaff Original Word: ἄχυρον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: achuron Phonetic Spelling: (akh'-oo-ron) Short Definition: chaff Definition: chaff. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitionchaff NASB Translationchaff (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 892: ἄχυρονἄχυρον, ἀχύρου, τό, "a stalk of grain from which the kernels have been beaten out; straw broken up by a threshing-machine, chaff": Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17. (In Greek writings from Herodotus 4, 72; Xenophon, oec. 18. 1, 2, 6 down; mostly in plural τά ἄχυρα; in Job 21:18 the Sept. also of the chaff accustomed to being driven away by the wind.)
Strong's chaff. Perhaps remotely from cheo (to shed forth); chaff (as diffusive) -- chaff. |
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