Lexical Summary mots: squeezer, extortioner Original Word: מֹץTransliteration: mots Phonetic Spelling: (motes) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: squeezer, extortioner Meaning: chaff, threshed loose) Strong's Concordance chaff Or mowts (Zephaniah 2:2) {motes}; from muwts; chaff (as pressed out, i.e. Winnowed or (rather) threshed loose) -- chaff. see HEBREW muwts Brown-Driver-Briggs H4671. mots [מוֺץ], מֹץ noun masculineIsaiah 29:5 chaff (Talmud מוֺצָא ᵑ7, Arabic straw ); — ׳מ absolute Hosea 13:3 6t.; construct Isaiah 17:13; — chaff, always as driven by wind, and always with כְּ, in simile; of wicked Job 21:18 ("" לִפְנֵי תֶּבֶן רוּחַ), compare Psalm 1:4; 35:5; Hosea 13:8; of hostile nations Isaiah 17:13 (׳מ הָרִים), 29:5 ("" דַּךְ אָבָק); hyperb. of Judah's power, תָּשִׂים כַּמֹץ גְּבָעוֺת 41:16 ("" תָּדוּשׁ וְתָדֹק הָרִים); of passing time, יוֺם Zephaniah 2:2. I, II. מוֺצָא, [מוֺצָאָה] see יצא. I. מוּצָק, [מוּצֶ֫קֶת] see יצק. II. מוּצָק see צוק. |
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